Slavery and South African historiography / Fred Morton -- Tower of Babel : the slave trade and creolization at the Cape, 1652-1834 / Robert C.-H. Shell -- Drosters of the Bokkeveld and the Roggeveld, ...

Garth Erasmus, a First Nations representative who accompanied the king and queen on their walk through the Slave Lodge, said their visit should serve to “exorcise some ghosts.” CAPE TOWN, South Africa ...

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...

The transatlantic slave trade has far-reaching consequences in Africa that resonate to this day. Although the slave trade itself ended in the 19th century, its aftermath continues to cast a shadow ...

An activist-turned-historian takes tourists through South Africa’s painful colonial history, which still echoes today.

Africa and Caribbean join forces in fight for reparations African Union to draw up its own white paper on reparations Leaders consider push for special tribunal on slavery US to decide on a tribunal ...

Introduction: Tracing (re)memory, thinking through echoes of colonial slavery in contemporary South Africa. -- Remembering differently: repositioned coloured identitiess in a democracy. -- (Not) ...

A special committee of the African Union and Caribbean Community, together representing 75 countries, endorsed the demand that European states should pay reparations for “historical mass crimes.” ...

As a girl, Fatima Dulvie would spend New Year's Day perched on the wall of her home in Cape Town's historic District Six area ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...