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Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica
Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank ...
The 19th Century Thinker Who Touted Tariffs
But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...
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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...
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Britain Says It Will Not Alter Standards or Rush U.S. Trade Deal
By Eshe Nelson Reporting from Washington Britain will not rush into a trade deal with the United States or change its food or car safety standards, Rachel Reeves, the British chancellor of the ...
Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...
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Slave trade database moving to Harvard
Domingues da Silva, who currently serves as host of the SlaveVoyages project, unpacked his findings on Brazil's 19th-century slave trade ... and the University of British Columbia, bestowing ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William ... suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
(Gabrielle Blackwood via AP) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors ...
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
This undated photo provided by Gabrielle Blackwood shows moderator Laura Trevelyan during a meeting of descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean at U.N ...