Benin’s slavery theme park balances education and remembrance with crude commerce

The commodification of heritage and the spectacle of culture produced by the tourist industry may debase the experiences of painful pasts.

Dominique Somda, The Conversation

· Dec 19, 2022 · 11:30 pm

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

In 1847, the East India Company’s Indian Navy captured vessels with 47 women and girls and 12 boys in the Persian Gulf and brought them into Bombay Harbour.

Susannah Gillard

· Jun 19, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Five plays by Black women playwrights that depict the missing history of slavery in Britain

They do not resort to violence to show the seriousness of their stories but do so through thoughtful writing.

Lynette Goddard, The Conversation

· Nov 02, 2021 · 08:30 am

What a 17th-century Dutch painting of an Indian boy tells us about migration today

Abducted, branded and sold, South Asians were prominent in Netherlands’ estates and shipyards through the 1660s.

Ajay Gandhi

· Sep 19, 2021 · 11:30 am

The history behind the Edward Colston statue pulled down by anti-racism protesters in Bristol

It was erected in 1895 to boost the slave trader’s image as the city’s paternal figure.

James Watts, The Conversation

· Jun 11, 2020 · 09:30 pm

US: Descendant of a slave sues Harvard University over 19th century photos of ancestor

The photos were commissioned by the institute in 1850 for a professor who wanted to prove that black people were inferior.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 21, 2019 · 03:11 pm

Punishments and privileges: How plantation owners in the Caribbean kept control over slaves

Slaveholders encouraged complex social hierarchies on plantations that amounted to something like a system of ‘class’.

Christer Petley

· Nov 06, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Slavery on campus – recovering the history of Washington College’s discarded slaves

Slave trade was used to fund American universities.

Kelley Deetz and Alfred L. Brophy, The Conversation

· Aug 29, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Why the racist massacre in Charleston is the tipping point for the fate of the Confederate flag

Because today it stands not just for Dylann Roof but white cowards – those angry that white privilege is ending.

Douglas A. Blackmon

· Jun 29, 2015 · 09:30 pm