Slavery Abolition

O ttobah Cugoano, the first African to publicly demand total abolition of the slave trade, has become the earliest black historical  figure to be honoured with a blue plaque. The plaque is being installed by English Heritage at Schomberg House, Pall Mall, where Cugoano worked as a servant. London’s blue…

What are we supposed to do with Barack Obama? He’s said at least twice over the course of the publicity tour for his new presidential memoir, A Promised Land, that his ideal reader is a young person.⁠ “Some 25-year-old kid,” he told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in an interview published…

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A handwritten copy of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech will be on display for two weeks in a Springfield museum. Officials with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum said it is only one of five surviving handwritten copies. The 1863 speech starts, “Four score and…

President Donald Trump has embarked on a lost cause akin to that embraced by Southerners after the Confederacy was crushed. That historical "lost cause" falsely posited that the U.S. Civil War was fought not to defend slavery, but, rather, to preserve states' rights and their cherished Southern way of life. That was…

Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion protesters have draped a huge banner off the Houses of Parliament today as they called for reparations for slavery. Three demonstrators wearing hi-vis clothing hung the large letter 'to the People of the United Kingdom' from scaffolding outside the building. The note demanded 'an honest…

“The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy.”—Donald Trump, November 6, 2012 “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!”—Donald Trump, November 15, 2016 Every four years, Americans get a little lesson in constitutional law…

Rachel Zellars is an African-American academic, lawyer, and community organizer who has lived in Canada for more than a decade and a half, and in Halifax for the last couple of years. Wendie Wilson is an African Nova Scotian teacher, artist, writer, and community advocate whose family has been in…

Human trafficking has become an increasingly devastating problem worldwide. But in the United States, it doesn’t seem to garner as much attention as other issues despite the fact that the Trump administration has worked overtime to address the issue and to assist victims who survived trafficking.  Eliza Bleu, an advocate…

A rough sleeper in Oxford City councillors fear rough sleepers could become victims of modern slavery if tough new immigration rules are enforced following Brexit. Earlier this year the government provided local authorities including Oxford City Council with financial support to try to ensure that people would no longer sleep…