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Scots believe English forced them to help create the British Empire, poll finds - despite ...

The Daily Mail 30 Jan 2025
It comes despite parts of Scotland doing very well out of the Empire, including the slave trade before it was abolished in the early 19th Century ... to the Atlantic slave trade between 1636 and 1834.
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Scots believe they are victims of colonialism despite helping create the British Empire | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 30 Jan 2025
It comes despite parts of Scotland doing very well out of the Empire, including the slave trade before it was abolished in the early 19th Century ... to the Atlantic slave trade between 1636 and 1834.
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'We were all labourers to them': The wider impact of blackbirding across the Pacific

RNZ 30 Jan 2025
It has been widely documented that in 1863, a Tasmanian whaler Thomas McGrath arrived on 'Ata and tricked around half of the island's 350 residents into boarding his ship and took them to sell them into the slave trade in Peru.
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Ancient papyrus is deciphered after 1,900 YEARS: Mysterious scroll is the 'best-documented Roman court case ...

The Daily Mail 30 Jan 2025
... of forging documents relating to the sale and release of slaves ... He could even have been trafficking young children born into slavery, or engaging in clandestine slave trade across imperial borders.
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The new Washington consensus

B & FT Online 30 Jan 2025
A joint-stock venture, the Virginia Company, established the first permanent settlement in North America, and the Dutch West India Company controlled much of the transatlantic slave trade, building ...
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Descendants, historians blast TDSB for renaming Macdonald, Dundas, Ryerson schools

True North 30 Jan 2025
Henry Dundas was a prominent minister for British Prime Minister William Pitt who worked with abolitionist William Wilberforce to abolish hereditary slavery immediately and gradually abolish the slave trade overall within the British empire ... ....
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Education matters to build entrepreneurial competencies

Korea Times 30 Jan 2025
By Daniel Shin ... Entrepreneurship can make a difference ... Many Dalits work as casual day laborers in small factories, quarries, brick kilns or on construction sites, as cycle rickshaw drivers or in petty trade. My friend was nobody and a modern-day slave.
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Rereading Rembrandt: How The Slave Trade Helped Establish The Golden Age Of Dutch Painting

MENA FN 29 Jan 2025
(MENAFN - The Conversation) The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade . But how did the slave ... .
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Scots think country was a victim of the British Empire, poll finds

The Daily Telegraph 29 Jan 2025
Scots were involved too in the slave trade and exploited slave labour in the plantations of the Caribbean.”.
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EU ‘complicit’ in sale of migrants as £10 slaves

The Daily Telegraph 29 Jan 2025
Migrants in Tunisia are being sold as slaves to Libyan ... Tunisian police and Libyan militia reportedly refer to the captured migrants as “black gold”, in a chilling echo of the transatlantic slave trade.
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TDSB renaming “colonial” John A Macdonald, Dundas, Ryerson schools

True North 29 Jan 2025
... delaying the abolition of slavery in the British empire, though he did so to preserve the abolition of slavery’s political validity and avoid driving the slave trade into the hands of a rival power.
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Hannah Arendt and Henry David Thoreau invoked in court by climate protesters

AOL 29 Jan 2025
... whose essay, On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, was purportedly written in a single night the philosopher spent in jail for refusing to pay taxes because of his opposition to war and the slave trade.
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The ‘dejudification’ of the Holocaust

The Spectator 28 Jan 2025
Imagine talking about the transatlantic slave trade and not saying the word African. Or discussing the genocidal slaughter in Rwanda without saying ‘the Tutsis;. It would be unthinkable, right? Impossible, in fact ... SIGN UP. Already a subscriber? Log in ... .
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A new book explains what the color blue can teach us about Black history

National Public Radio 28 Jan 2025
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues ....

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