Tag: slave
Dutch Central Bank apologizes for history of slavery
Dutch Central Bank (DNB) Governor Klaas Knot has apologized for the bank’s role in its history of slavery. The bank has announced that it will provide financial support for conflicts…
Hear Aimé Césaire for the National Day of Memories of the Slave Trade and Slavery
First poem by Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a return to the native country recounts the French West Indies before the decline of the colonial empire, in 1939. A text marked…
Council quartet wants $71K to help preserve London’s fugitive slave chapel
News Local News Four London city councilors are asking city hall for one-time funding to help move a piece of the region’s Black history to a permanent spot at Fanshawe…
Searching for the names of his slave ancestors
Allowing French descendants of slaves to discover the origin of their surname is one of the objectives of the Comité marche du 23 mai 1998 (CM98), a West Indian memorial…