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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, ... New World slaves were considered the property of their owners, and slaves convicted of revolt or murder were executed. Slave market regions and participation Major slave trading regions of Africa, ...
25 March 2024 Human Rights. Top UN officials, including the Secretary-General and the General Assembly President on Monday paid tribute to the millions of men, women and children who suffered as a...
The slave trade was one of the pillars of Norse commerce during the 9th through 11th centuries. The 10th-century Persian traveller Ibn Rustah described how Swedish Vikings, the Varangians or Rus, ... In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies. He was not, however, as some ...
The Island of Gorée off the coast of Senegal is a UNESCO heritage site and a symbol of the suffering, pain and death of the transatlantic slave trade. UN News: How should those legacies be...
The monumental shame of Britain’s role in the slave trade before, during and after abolition | Slavery | The Guardian. A close up from the UK in an 1875 map; previously enslaved people work...
New York – 25 March 2024 –Yolanda Renee King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s granddaughter, today joined the President of the UN General Assembly and others to mark the International Day of...
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Press Statement. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State. March 25, 2024. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans remains one of the most horrific and traumatizing eras in human history.
