Slavery Abolition

News Kinnesha George Tuesday 2 August 2022 Chief Secretary Farley Augustine speaks at Emancipation Day celebrations on Monday at Store Bay Heritage Park, Crown Point, Monday. Photo by David Reid THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine has urged black people to continue speaking about the horrors of slavery until royal families…

As Canadians mark the abolition of slavery in most British colonies this Monday, scholars are calling on the federal government to issue an apology for Canada's role in the enslavement of Black and Indigenous people. Aug. 1 marks Emancipation Day in Canada, the day in 1834 when the Slavery Abolition…

Winnipeggers gathered at the St. Norbert Arts Centre on Monday to mark the creation of legislation that abolished slavery in Canada 188 years ago, and reflect on the ongoing hardships Black people face.  Co-host Uche Nwankwo said the anniversary is an opportunity to discuss Black history and discuss the work that needs to happen to end…

HALIFAX -  Politicians and dignitaries gathered in Halifax on Monday to commemorate Emancipation Day, the anniversary of the British Parliament's decision to abolish slavery across its empire in 1834. By some estimates, more than 15 million African women, men and children were victims of the transatlantic slave trade. And by…

News Newsday Reporter Monday 1 August 2022 Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar. FILE PHOTO - File Photo OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said that as the country in general, and people of African descent in particular, observe Emancipation Day on Monday, it is important that the horrors of slavery must never be…

More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and its intergenerational harms. Author Elise Harding-Davis said Sunday that the federal government’s vote last March to…

In every speech Nova Scotia Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard makes for Emancipation Day this year, she'll ask the same question: what's next? It's a question she's posing to federal and provincial governments, as well as individual Canadians, as the country marks the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Federal politicians…

Prince Charles has expressed his personal sorrow over the enduring impact of British colonialism and slavery at a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda. He also addressed the issue of Commonwealth members cutting ties with the Royal Family. “I want to acknowledge that the roots of our contemporary association run…

A historic bust of Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address have been removed from a Cornell University library display following a complaint, according to a university professor. Biology professor Randy Wayne told The College Fix that he often visits the library and noticed recently that the Lincoln bust –…

In the latest saga of the misguided attacks on “critical race theory,” a group of educators given the assignment of recommending curriculum changes to the Texas State Board of Education proposed that American slavery be described to second grade social studies classes as “involuntary relocation.” If the educators suggesting such…