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Slavery
Harvard says it is built on human subjugation, perpetuating profoundly immoral slavery practices
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Harvard University, arguably the world's premier name in education, has laid bare a troublesome tryst with slavery and earmarked $100 million as reparation.
In a...
Jamaican protesters shun royal visit, demand slavery reparations
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Protesters in Jamaica raised their fists Tuesday as they donned T-shirts emblazoned with a pair of shackled Black wrists surrounded by the phrases “Seh...
Barbados becoming a full Republic revives memories of enslavement, role of British Royal family in slave trade
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On November 30, 2021, Barbados, which the British made into their colony in 1627, finally declared its full independence after 396 years of British...
1493 CE: The Pope asserts rights to colonize, convert, and enslave
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In 1493 CE, Pope Alexander VI issued a papal bull or decree, “Inter Caetera," in which he authorized Spain and Portugal to colonize the...
Colonizers were monsters in their own time
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The nine-year-olds taken as sex slaves by Christopher Columbus were not like ‘this is a great guy’. While they were being raped or beaten and thrown overboard, they...