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Slavery

‘I wish to remain in Bombay’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women in 19th century

Susannah Gillard
· Jun 19, 2022 · 01:30 pm
How a Black writer used humour to combat white supremacy in 19th-century America

Rodney Taylor, The Conversation
· Mar 14, 2022 · 05:30 pm
‘Born in Blackness’: This important book shows Africa was central to the making of the modern world

Lauren van der Rede, The Conversation
· Feb 08, 2022 · 05:30 pm
Five plays by Black women playwrights that depict the missing history of slavery in Britain

Lynette Goddard, The Conversation
· Nov 02, 2021 · 08:30 am
Why the Rolling Stones are right not to perform the song ‘Brown Sugar’ on their upcoming tour

Timothy McKenry, The Conversation
· Oct 16, 2021 · 11:30 pm
What a 17th-century Dutch painting of an Indian boy tells us about migration today

Ajay Gandhi
· Sep 19, 2021 · 11:30 am
A woman’s account from 1800s reveals the plight of Indian indentured labour in the Caribbean

Purba Hossain
· Jan 18, 2021 · 01:30 pm
When it comes to human trafficking, we must question the narrative around rescuing survivors

Roop Sen
· Dec 27, 2020 · 07:30 am
In these Bhojpuri folk songs, forgotten tales of Indian indentured workers in British colonies

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Aug 03, 2020 · 01:30 pm
In the 1820s, a British movement to quit sugar accelerated the end of slavery in the West Indies

Tom Zoellner, The Conversation
· Jul 15, 2020 · 09:30 pm
America ignored the Tulsa race riots for decades. For me, it’s a piece of family history

Gregory B Fairchild, The Conversation
· Jun 21, 2020 · 11:30 pm
Why we must read 19th-century US books like ‘Little Women’, ‘Leaves of Grass’ to get modern America

Jillian Spivey Caddell, The Conversation
· May 19, 2020 · 05:30 pm
In nearly half of the world’s countries, slavery has not yet been criminalised

Katarina Schwarz, The Conversation Jean Allain, The Conversation
· Feb 17, 2020 · 11:30 pm
Watch: White woman interrupts ‘A Slave Play’ panel, saying the play is unfair to white people

Scroll Staff
· Dec 05, 2019 · 04:11 pm
How a British law against modern slavery is leading to moral policing in Sri Lanka

Sandya Hewamanne, The Conversation
· Jul 12, 2019 · 11:30 pm
British universities are looking into past ties with slavery and colonialism – but to what end?

Steven Greer, The Conversation
· May 14, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Demands to remove US mural for ‘glorifying slavery’ raise important questions about art censorship

Amna Khalid, The Conversation Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, The Conversation
· May 13, 2019 · 11:30 pm
US: Descendant of a slave sues Harvard University over 19th century photos of ancestor

Scroll Staff
· Mar 21, 2019 · 03:11 pm
‘Washington Black’: A novel that puts the oppressed in the world of oppressors and sees what happens

Veena Muthuraman
· Dec 16, 2018 · 12:30 pm
Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum

Deana Heath, The Conversation
· Nov 07, 2018 · 11:30 pm