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Antoinette Sandbach ‘struggling with difficult history’ after initially threatening to sue University of Cambridge over academic’s research

“Reparations have been paid for other wrongs and obviously far more quickly, far more speedily than reparations for what I consider the greatest atrocity and crime in the history of mankind: transatlantic chattel slavery.” So noted the eminent Jamaican international jurist Judge Patrick Robinson, when launching the 115-page Brattle Report…

Student says he has been pressured to remove a reference to Antoinette Sandbach, a descendant of a slave merchant

Black Atlantic at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum explores how Britain’s role in slavery can be seen through its fine art. Rather than giving simple answers, reflection is its aim

Exclusive: If the UK wants to be a country that demonstrates values of justice, then it should say sorry for its mass enslavement of African people, Dickon Mitchell tells The Independent

The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana have apologized for the sins of their forefathers and called slavery a crime against humanity

Samrat Choudhury's book maps Northeast India's long journey from isolation to integration, highlighting unresolved issues like autonomy and independent states. Colonial records provide insight into the region's history, while Christianity's quick pick-up and slavery's prevalence are discussed. The author explains why some creative problem-solving is required to sort out festering…

Leaders of Georgia's oldest city have made history by voting to name one of Savannah's treasured downtown squares for a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write

Guyana president Irfaan Ali has lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders and says those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should offer to pay reparations to today’s generations