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How Europe's obsession with sugar fuelled the slave trade

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...
The Bookseller

Historian Hannah Durkin wins £50,000 Wolfson History Prize

Historian Hannah Durkin has won the £50,000 Wolfson History Prize for her book Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (William Collins).

Africa’s shame: its hidden role in the slave trade

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides ...
St. Louis American

A story of Trans-Atlantic horror and triumph

Kwesi Essel-Blankson, author of “Our Story: Cape Coast Castle & The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade." The author (left) has been a tour guide at the Cape Coast Castle for over 20 years. In 2009, he led a ...
Reuters

To honor slave trade victims, a memorial in the depths of the Atlantic

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can ...
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Lose your mother a journey along the Atlantic slave route Saidiya Hartman

"In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland ...
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A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century : the Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade / Ray A. Kea ; with a foreword ...

Who Makes History? -- The Atlantic Slave Trade -- Summary of Chapters -- pt. ONE TEXTS -- ch. One Hans Lykke of Osu -- Hermeneutics -- A Death-Wish -- Writing Hans Lykke -- History Continues -- ...