The slaves were being transported by middlemen, along with a consignment of tobacco and palm produce
The slaves were being transported by middlemen, along with a consignment of tobacco and palm produce
‘My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves’ (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53444752
Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings have seen their legacies reassessed, their statues toppled and their names removed…
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‘Our history is intertwined’: heirs of Jamaican enslavers apologise to descendants of the enslaved
Natricia Duncan and Anthony Lugg in Saint Ann: https://www.smartnews.com/p/4709845983977015714?placement=article-preview-social&share_id=VxRTHc
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#1526Project IGBO LANDING SLAVERY REVOLT (1803)
May 1803– US slave ship "Wanderer" lands in Savannah, Georgia (GA) loaded w/ captured West Africans. The slavers' intent is to auction off their human cargo at local markets. Among enslaved are fierce Igbo people from modern day Nigeria.
Igbo landing: Remembering enslaved Africans who chose death over slavery by walking into the ocean
The Igbo people walked into the ocean together, and died by suicide as they refused to be slaves for the rest of their lives. (By Sethuraman S)
Faced with the reality of being slaves in a foreign land, Igbo people chose death as they walked into the ocean and drowned while still chained to each other. https://share.newsbreak.com/5uimynva
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The Igbo are one of Nigeria's largest ethnic groups and among them is a minority of practicing Jews that claim to be the descendants of a lost tribe of Israel, but the Jewish state doesn't recognize them.
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Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) Is the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica, according to her father's lengthy ancestral summary of his side of the family. https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harriss-ancestors-owned-slaves/