The history of Brazil, Palmares, and Zumbi illustrates how state efforts to whitewash national narratives can backfire.

Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call is part of In The Making, a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of ...

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Between the 15th and 19th Centuries, it is estimated that up to 12m Africans were forced onto European slave ships and taken across the Atlantic. Two hundred years after the British parliament voted ...

The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.

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The largest rediscovered site is the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan ... Historians say there are many more nationwide. Slave cemeteries are everywhere — under parking lots, in ...

The study of the historic slave trade depends on numbers—the 12.5 million people kidnapped from Africa and shipped ... in Spanish and Portuguese America, they “were considered fully human ...

High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe stands as a stark monument of Portuguese colonial ambitions in Africa.

As African countries look to improve intra-African trade, which currently stands at 15 per cent, a new report has revealed that Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, and South Africa are key drivers of ...

Portuguese-Brazilian merchants ... then began operating their own slave trade, establishing commercial connections on the African coast. Like the other traders, they exchanged cane spirits and ...