Each year some Caribbean countries commemorate Emancipation Day – the day chattel slavery was formally abolished in Britain and it’s colonies. This excerpt is taken from the rare video, The Great Home Coming”. It documents the first Emancipation Day commemoration on the African continent, which took place in July – August 1998 in Ghana, West [...]
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In the summer of 1860 more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 children, teenagers, and young adults from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States. Timothy Meaher, an established [...] |
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