Slavery

Experten schätzen, dass eine „Bilanz des entstandenen Schadens“ durch 200 Jahre Sklaverei Entschädigungen in Höhe von 2 Billionen US-Dollar betragen würde. Großbritannien stahl laut neuer Forschungen eines internationalen Expertenteams 25 Millionen Jahre an Leben und Arbeit durch Sklaverei auf Barbados. Ihr Bericht kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die Bevölkerung von Barbados afrikanischer Abstammung durch 200 Jahre Sklaverei Schäden erlitten hat, die auf bis zu 2 Billionen US-Dollar (1,5 Billionen £) geschätzt werden. Weiterlesen...

Report examines how the effects of slavery and Jim Crow at the county level continue to harm Black Georgia residentsA Georgia taskforce has released a landmark report that details the lasting impact of slavery and its afterlives in Fulton county.The report, spanning more than 600 pages, is based on original research by the Fulton county reparations taskforce and a review of primary source documents. It is the first-of-its-kind in the nation, according to county leaders and researchers. Rather than examining the impact of slavery and racism at the federal or state level, the harm report investigated the role of the county government. Continue reading...

The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstructionChristopher Newman remembers seeing campus police officers as he walked into a human resources office at Harvard University, but he didn’t imagine that they were there for him.It was July 2024, and Newman had just turned in the results of a two-month-long internship with the Harvard University Archives: an annotated bibliography for the landmark 2022 Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery Initiative report, which detailed the university’s ties to slavery across three centuries. He completed his project on Friday, 26 July, and on Monday, he said he received an email that HR wanted to meet with him. Continue reading...