Slave trade
The history of foreign aid is steeped in imperialism
17 February 2018Right wingers are using revelations about Oxfam in Haiti for their own ends.
Capitalism—a system born of slavery
14 March 2017People across the political spectrum acknowledge that racism exists, but its origins are shrouded in mystery—deliberately so.
Motley mutinies, popular pirates and slave revolts at sea
16 September 2014Historian Marcus Rediker spoke to Ken Olende about the struggles that took place aboard the ships of early capitalism
‘I’d rather die than be a white man's slave’ - the story of the Amistad Rebellion
29 October 2013The Amistad Rebellion tells the story of a group of slaves who rose up. Ken Olende looks at a revolt that caught the imagination of poor people everywhere—and showed slaves could win
The role of the slave revolts in ending slavery
24 March 2007Africans resisted slavery at every point. There were rebellions on board the ships that carried them across the oceans, which often resulted in the cruelest retaliation. But it was on the plantations that the most serious challenges to the slave economy took place.
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