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    Ari Gautier
    · Dec 25, 2022 · 11:30 am
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    Susannah Gillard
    · Jun 19, 2022 · 01:30 pm
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    Ajay Gandhi
    · Sep 19, 2021 · 11:30 am
  • British universities are looking into past ties with slavery and colonialism – but to what end?

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    · May 14, 2019 · 09:30 pm
  • Punishments and privileges: How plantation owners in the Caribbean kept control over slaves

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    Christer Petley
    · Nov 06, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • Slaver’s Bay: The little-known history of Dutch slave trade in a small town in Tamil Nadu

    Slaver’s Bay: The little-known history of Dutch slave trade in a small town in Tamil Nadu

    Vinita Govindarajan
    · Aug 29, 2017 · 11:30 am