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1 day ago · Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in much of the rest of the ancient world. [1] When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century) began ...
5 days ago · Footnote 17 The caravans of suffering slaves led by ‘Arab’ traders were a trope in European denunciations of slavery in Africa, a trope that Lavigerie contributed to promulgate in powerful orations delivered from the pulpits of Europe’s cathedrals. For example, his lecture on African Slavery in St. Sulpice in Paris described how ‘Arab ...
5 days ago · REGIONAL. Africa Regional Report. Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent in Africa and Status of Modern Slavery – Regional Report 2023. Hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved people in and from Africa can trace back their modern forms of slavery and discrimination – to the caste-based slavery of the past, and the discrimination ...
2 days ago · Simon Webb. May 10, 2024. 15. To hear modern people talk, it would be easy enough to believe that before those terrible white Europeans started their cruel activities in sub-Saharan Africa, the concept of slavery was wholly unknown to the indigenous inhabitants. This is a pleasing conceit, one which has no basis at all in fact.
2 days ago · Slavery in Africa has historically been widespread and systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in much of the ancient world. When the trans-Saharan , Red Sea , Indian Ocean and Atlantic slave trades began, many of the pre-existing local African slave systems started supplying captives for ...
4 days ago · Some of best work on slave resistance in recent years focuses on the African backgrounds of the enslaved. Through language, kinship, religion, and so on, Africans recreated aspects of their pasts in North America. Some of these forms were expressed as resistance—through “sorcery,” Islam, running away, and even suicide.
4 days ago · On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'. Throughout the 19th century, the anti-slave trade movement was in full swing in Europe.
