Tag: Slavery
Florida stirs controversy with new rules on teaching slavery
In Florida, the Department of Education adopts hotly contested new rules on teaching slavery in public schools. These new rules ask teachers in particular to teach their students that slavery…
The minister: Berry picking is “modern slavery”
After a chaotic last year for berry picking in Sweden, the government now wants to regulate the industry tightly, writes SVT Nyheter Västerbotten. The Minister for Equality compares the activity…
The minister: “What is going on in our berry forests is a modern form of slavery”
Around 6,000 people have applied to pick berries in Sweden this year. Last year was chaotic, 250 Thais wrote to the government and told us that they lived in miserable…
Images from the resort town… Waitress or slavery?
An image on the island of Rhodes, one of the most popular holiday resorts in Greece, garnered great reaction on social media. The international public opinion was divided into two…
How the past of slavery still lives on in Roze-Marie (89): ‘The pain runs deep’
Only a few generations ago, the slavery past is so close to Roze-Marie Kensenhuis (89) and her daughter Valga Lamur (58). Their ancestors were enslaved in Suriname. Today, 150 years…
Province apologizes for slavery past: ‘More awareness is needed’
The province of Utrecht played a major role in that slavery past. In 1720 the Provincial Utrecht Ge-otroyeerde Compagnie was founded. That organization was directly involved in transatlantic slavery by…
“Slavery” – we would whip the messengers
Published: Just now Many have seen the pink messengers rushing by, but few know what happens behind the scenes. Dennis Elyasi worked for two years at Foodora, and now talks…
Through a triple exhibition, Normandy commemorates the memory of the victims of slavery
May 23 is National Day in Memory of the Victims of Slavery. The opportunity to discuss this exhibition called: “Slavery, Norman memories” which is currently being held in Normandy and…
Utrecht residents can express their wishes about Amsterdam’s Slavery Museum
Utrechters can express their opinion tonight about the yet to be built National Slavery Museum in Amsterdam. As a quartermaster, John Leerdam is responsible for the preparations for the museum,…
In Paris, in the footsteps of slavery
On this national day of memories of the slave trade, slavery and their abolition, it is an opportunity to remember that Paris is full of places that trace France’s slavery…