Ernst Hasenclever in Gongo-Soco
Ernst Hasenclever in Gongo-Soco: English exploitation of the gold mines in the state of Minas Gerais in the nineteenth century Based on the report of Ernst Hasenclever on his visit to the Gong-Soco...
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Slavery, freedom and the sea
In the book “The Empire of Necessity: Slavery Freedom and Deception in the New World”, historian Greg Grandin tells the story of the slave ship rebellion that inspired “Benito Cereno”, a masterpiece...
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The abolition of the slave trade
May 2015 On March 3, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed into act a bill approved by Congress the day before “to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction...
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Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners to depict legacies of slave-ownership
July 2015 “The compensation of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners was the largest bailout in British history until the bailout of the banks in 2009. Not only did the slaves receive nothing, under another...
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