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Amis (es) de l’Afrique et la Caraïbe, bonjour,
Ces assertions d’une façon permanente, reviennent dans les conversations… Ces gens là « entendons les Nègres de l’Afrique et de la Caraïbe »ne sont pas crédibles, incapables de s’entendre pour être constructifs, de grands enfants, dont l’Humanité pourrait se passer de leur existence »...il est vrai que certains comportements, et des propos irresponsables venant de nos propres rangs, tendraient à accréditer ces thèses.
Alors en observateur vigilant, je me pose les qui… comment… pourquoi…ces différentes... |
Most of slavery reparations suit thrown out
December 14, 2006 BY MIKE ROBINSON A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected most claims by slave descendants that they deserve reparations from some of the nation's biggest insurers, banks and transportation companies.
If the descendants could collect damages for wrongs against their ancestors ''statutes of limitations would be toothless,'' the panel said.
''A person whose ancestor had been wronged a thousand years ago could sue on the ground that it was a continuing wrong and he is one of the victims,''... |
Reform Jewish Movement Calls Attention to Slavery in Sudan During Passover
Launches Passover Project Website
Saperstein: "The hagaddah commands us to 'remember the stranger for we were strangers in the land of Egypt.' This is a call to action, a call for us to rise up against slavery and tyranny in our own time."
Contact:Alexis Rice or Erin Glazer 202-387-2800
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2002 - As the Jewish community prepares for Passover, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) has joined together with the American Anti-Slavery Group... |
Slavery San Antonio Style
By Mario Salas
In San Antonio, African American slaves were sold twice a week at the auction houses of such well known names as Henry Burns, John M. Carolan, Charles F. King, George Collamer, WD. Greenwood and Company, J. N. Henriques, E. J. McLane, and Francis Giraud. Reportedly, in the 1800s, the first slave in San Antonio was William Baylor, though this appears untrue because of the Spanish slave system that existed with the arrival of the Canary Islanders in the 1700s, and the Spanish slave system that existed in Mexico in the 1500s.... |
European church leaders in Zimbabwe to apologise for slavery and colonialism
By Violet Gonda 28 August 2006 A European Christian leaders’ delegation is in Zimbabwe for a week long Prayer Network Conference to be held at the Harare International Conference Centre, to formally apologise for the vices committed during the slave trade era and through colonisation in Africa.
However political commentator Dr John Makumbe says the timing is politically naïve as it will be used by Mugabe as political fodder - since he blames Zimbabwe’s crisis on colonialism.
The... |
Slavery, the Shoah and Restitution
Monday 4th of December 2006
As the UK prepared to mark 200 years since the abolition of slavery in 2007, Tony Blair expressed his ‘deep sorrow’ over Britain’s role in the slave trade. However, for many, simple regret does not go far enough, with some campaigners calling for reparations akin to those paid to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Esther Stanford, Secretary of Rendezvous of Victory - an African-led, cross-community heritage learning organisation – discusses the shared experience of persecution that demands restitution. Rather... |
Is Blair's slave trade 'sorrow' enough?
Will Prime Minister Tony Blair's article in the New Nation newspaper suffice as an apology for the slavery?
In anticipation of the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery Mr Blair expressed "deep sorrow" in his article while Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is drafting a "statement of regret" for Britain's involvement.
The Church of England General Synod has voted to issue a formal apology, something Mr Blair has not given and Mr Prescott has ruled out.
Should nations that were involved in... |
WILLIE LYNCH The Making Of A Slave
This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term "lynching" is derived from his last name.
Table Of Contents Greetings Lets Make A Slave Cardinal Principals For Making A Negro The Breaking Process Of The African Women The Negro Marriage Unit Controlled Language
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Slavery remembered in Accra 30/11/2006 11:01 - (SA) # Blair 'sorry' for slave trade
Accra - An emotional governor-general of Canada, Michaelle Jean, shed tears as she was taken on a tour of the Elmina Castle, 100 kilometres west of Accra, where she sympathised at what her ancestors were subjected to as they were herded into slavery.
Jean, whose background is Haitian and of African descent, went to the castle as part of a five-day visit to Ghana, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported.
She laid a wreath at the gate of "No Return," where... |
Slavery Is Past. It's Time Brazil and Africa Unite in Mutual Understanding Written by Dirce Carrion Monday, 27 November 2006
Olhares Cruzados, an Africa-Brazil exchange program"Without Angola, there is no Brazil," said the polemical Friar Antonio Vieira at the beginning of the 17th Century. Now we, being the largest black nation second only to Nigeria, ask the question, "Without Africa, what is Brazil?"
During 350 years of black slavery in Brazil, millions of Africans were pulled out of their natural and social environments, condemned to... |
British ignorant over history of slave trade-poll
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - Only one in 10 Britons knows when the transatlantic slave trade was abolished and almost half the population has no idea who campaigned to end it, a poll showed on Tuesday. Click to learn more...
The findings prompted human rights groups to call for schoolchildren to learn more about the trade and Britain to mark next year's bicentenary of its abolition in a meaningful way.
"This is a clarion call for education," said Richard Reddie, project director for... |
Monday, November 06, 2006 Slavery and Reparations Reading List Just back from the AALS hiring conference--as in past years I was mightily impressed with the people we met. Lots of thoughtful research agendas.
In light of feedback to my post on the report of Brown University's steering committee on slavery and justice, I thought that I'd begin a short reading list on slavery and on reparations as well. I told the Brown Daily Herald that I think the Steering Committee's report is the best single volume ever written on reparations for slavery. So for an excellent introduction,... |
One of The Great Whites of Black History: Thaddeus Stevens
By Robert N. Taylor, Contributing Columnist November 6, 2006 talkback
When African Americans begin to erect monuments to some of the greatest heroes of black history, one white politician who deserves a prominent place in the "hall of heroes" is a person completely unknown to most blacks - Thaddeus Stevens (1792 - 1868). It is no exaggeration to say that Stevens did more than any other politician in American history - including Abraham Lincoln - to bring an end to slavery and help blacks start new... |
Activists meet on U.S. slave reparations
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The chairwoman of the African People Solidarity Committee says white residents of the United States should support reparations for African-Americans.
Penny Hess spoke to a reporter with the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune Friday on the eve of African People Solidarity Day. The activist is one of nine speakers at a Nov. 4-5 reparations event in Oakland and San Francisco. "The wealth of the West is built on slavery of African people," said Hess. "White people need to recognize it and support (reparations)." |
Local black leaders and historians praise slavery and justice report Max Winograd Issue date: 11/1/06 Section: Slavery & Justice
Black leaders and historians across the state have praised the 106-page report of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice for its public acknowledgement of the University and state's ties to slavery and the slave trade.
Released Oct. 18, the report's recommendations include the creation of a center to study slavery as well as efforts to boost education among local students of color about their state's history. |
Slavery claim could block parking deal (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/117893,CST-NWS-slave31.article)
October 31, 2006
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter
Mayor Daley's $563 million plan to privatize the Millennium Park and Grant Park garages hit a surprise roadblock on Monday: The City Council's champion for slave reparations is threatening to seek a court order blocking the deal because she believes Morgan Stanley Investment Management lied about its past ties to slavery.
Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) is furious because the firm chosen to lease... |
ENGLISH HERITAGE TO REVEAL SLAVERY LINKS TO HISTORIC HOUSES By Caroline Lewis 25/10/2006 an old handbill about a meeting on the Abolition of Colonial Slavery
English Heritage is to research the hidden histories of its properties. © National Maritime Museum, London
Culture Minister David Lammy MP has announced that English Heritage is making a new commitment to researching and flagging up the connections between historic properties in its care and the transatlantic slave trade.
He joined representatives from the heritage organisation on October 25 2006... |
BROWN UNIVERSITY'S DEBT TO SLAVERY Written by NY Times Editorial Monday, 23 October 2006 A long-awaited report on Brown University’s 18th-century links to slavery should dispel any lingering smugness among Northerners that slavery was essentially a Southern problem.
The report establishes that Brown did indeed benefit in its early years from money generated by the slave trade and by industries dependent on slavery. It did so in an era when slavery permeated the social and economic life of Rhode Island. Slaves accounted for 10 percent of the state’s population... |
Slavery will be taught in schools, says Lammy by Lester Holloway 23/10/2006
THE GOVERNMENT bowed to pressure to make teaching slavery compulsory in schools last week.
Arts minister David Lammy dropped heavy hints that the government would backtrack over its previous refusal to amend the national curriculum.
Speaking at a conference last Monday Lammy, who is overseeing preparations to commemorate 2007 as the bicentenary of slavery abolition, said the issue was “universal.”
Campaigners have been calling for the real history of the transatlantic... |
October 20, 2006
21st Century Slavery
By Timothy V. Gatto
There is a subject that certain liberals take a very conservative view on, and certain conservatives take a very liberal view of. That subject is immigration. Many liberals and also many people of the economic sector that we call the "blue collar" class, are for tougher immigration laws and little if no amnesty for people that have thumbed their noses at American laws and hopped over the border, or overstayed their visitor or student visas. At the same time, many conservatives and people who are... |
Brown University report seeks memorial, center on slavery
By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer | October 18, 2006
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --A committee examining Brown University's centuries-old ties to the slave trade issued a report Wednesday recommending the creation of a memorial and an academic center focused on research on slavery and justice.
The Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice -- formed three years ago to look into its "grievous crimes" of the past -- also recommended that the university's relationship to the slave trade be introduced to... |
Slavery could become compulsory subject
By Jonathan Petre, Religious Affairs Correspondent (Filed: 17/10/2006)
The slave trade and its abolition 200 years ago could become a compulsory subject in schools, it emerged yesterday.
The move is being considered as part of a review of diversity within the National Curriculum ordered by Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary. Slavery etching Many teachers are already bringing the issue of slavery into history lessons
The development was revealed by David Lammy, the Culture Minister, in a... |
A toutes et tous, Quelques instants de recueillement pour saluer la mémoire de ce combattant de la liberté infatigable qui a connu l'exil 13 ans du fait de ses positions courageuses contre l'esclavage actuel en Mauritanie. J'avais rencontré le Pr Saïdou Kane à Durban en 2001 où aux côtés de sa femme, Anja Oksalampi nous avions pu mesurer la hauteur, la persévérance et la pugnacité de son engagement pour mettre fin à l'esclavage contemporain sévissant toujours en Mauritanie. Tous deux ont joué un rôle déterminant dans le combat collectif pour l'adoption des... |
How Welsh immigrants passed on names to their slaves
Oct 14 2006
Molly Watson, Western Mail
SERENA and Venus Williams, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice would be proud additions to the list of Welsh-connected superstars with their familiar-sounding surnames.
But a new S4C programme has laid bare the legacy of shame that led to many black Americans being burdened with Welsh names.
Along with other European immigrants, many of the early Welsh settlers in the US owned slaves.
And when they were freed, many of them took the last names... |
Esclavage : les révisionnistes ne doivent plus échapper à la Justice WWW.CLAUDE-RIBBE.COM par Claude Ribbe Paris, 13 octobre 2006 Au printemps 2005, un obscur universitaire nantais, en mal de promotion et de reconnaissance, sétait permis, dans un hebdomadaire de grande... |
Lawsuit seeks restitution for slavery from finance firms Document Actions
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Written by : Green Party of the United States Last modified 2006-10-05 14:25 WASHINGTON, D.C., Monday, October 2— Green Party candidates and leaders announced their support for a law suit that would hold Brown Brothers Harriman, a major U.S. financial institution, liable for its involvement in the slave trade.
The suit was filed by descendents of African American slaves whose labor contributed to Brown Brothers Harriman... |
Findings ways to right wrongs of slavery Published on: 10/4/06.
by TONY BEST
TURN BACK the hands of the clock.
It's 1807 and Britain has just passed the 1807 Slave Trade Abolition Act, a legal prelude to the end of one of history's abominations: slavery. The reaction of Blacks held in bondage in Barbados "appeared increasingly anxious and restless".
As Professor Hilary Beckles, perhaps the Caribbean's leading historian, explained it in his book, A History Of Barbados, the Black Bajan reaction was traceable to "their perception that... |
Despite naysayers, push for reparations will forge ahead
October 3, 2006 BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist I wouldn't be so quick to say reparations won't happen.
This isn't a subject that is going to go away just because a lot of white people and some blacks oppose it. The reason it's not going away is because slavery and its aftermath is this nation's unfinished business. Sooner or later, we're going to have to deal with it.
Although some ridicule the federal lawsuit filed on behalf of slave descendants, and a federal appeals court may throw out its... |
FROM DARFUR TO MAURITANIA
The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania Speak on Slavery and Genocide in the Sahel
by Bill Weinberg
At opposite ends of Africa's Sahel, Sudan and Mauritania hold the distinction of being two nations where the practice of slavery remains intact at the dawn of the 21st century. Sudan is in the headlines now, due to the crisis in Darfur, and mounting calls for foreign intervention. Mauritania remains in the shadows--despite the fact it is still reckoning with the consequences of a Darfur-style wave of ethnic cleansing that began... |
Africa: Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links
H-Net (East Lansing)
BOOK REVIEW October 2, 2006 Posted to the web October 2, 2006
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links
By Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xxi + 225 pp.
$34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2973-0.
Reviewed for H-Atlantic by Alexander X. Byrd, Rice University
Africans in the Americas
Gwendolyn... |
Phoenix Insurgent: The diseases of slavery and white citizenship Sunday, October 01 2006 @ 01:06 PM PDT Contributed by: Collin Sick Views: 65 RaceIn one of the more interesting scenes in the smart alternate history mock-umentary, Confederate States of America, we watch a tv advertisement recruiting less than stellar white students into the exciting and expanding field of veterinary medicine - the care and treatment of chattel slaves. CSA explores a "what-if" history in which the South won the Civil War and slavery flourished throughout the entire country.... |
Slavery descendants ask court to revive landmark reparations lawsuit (http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/news/74591,3_1_EL28_A4SLAVE_S1.article)
September 28, 2006
BY Ashley M. Heher Associated Press
CHICAGO -- Lawyers for slave descendants asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive a landmark reparations case that demands 17 of the nation's insurers and banks publicize and pay for their roles in the country's slave trade.
The case, which names Wall Street behemoths JP Morgan Chase & Co., Aetna Inc., Bank of America and others,... |
Slavery was the black Holocaust, so treat it with the same respect (http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/78593,CST-NWS-mitch01.article)
October 1, 2006
BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist
Are Jewish people better off today because their forefathers endured the Holocaust? I would think most people would be offended by any argument that suggests that the extermination of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany was a necessary evil. I'm raising this issue because I can't ignore the assumptions on the part of some white people that blacks in America ought to forget... |
African-American History is American History By Stasia Demarco Philadelphia 28 September 2006 De Marco report -- Download (MP3) 1.16MB audio clip De Marco report -- Download (Real) 793k audio clip Listen to De Marco report audio clip
Logo of the Rosenback African-American hisotry exhibit
African American history taught and understood as part of American history, not a separate subject, is the focus of an in-depth exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia
On this warm September evening, Rosenbach museum members... |
Court Asked To Reinstate Slavery Reparations Cases September 28, 2006 By ANDREW HARRIS, Bloomberg News CHICAGO -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., Aetna Inc. and CSX Corp. are among the U.S. corporations that should pay for their involvement in the nation's 19th-century slave trade, three lawyers told a federal appeals court Wednesday.
The attorneys asked a three-judge U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel to reinstate nine lawsuits seeking reparations from the companies, which are accused of either bankrolling slave owners, insuring the slaves or owning them outright.... |
J.P. Morgan & Co. Sued for Profiting From Slavery BY NICK GODT - Dow Jones Newswires September 26, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/40357J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. are among 18 corporate defendants named in a slave-reparations case to be heard tomorrow in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. The case is a consolidation of nine cases filed by African-Americans across America in 2002. Among the other defendants are Lehman... |
Washington ceremony recognizes slavery
Sep. 24, 2006 at 3:18PM
More than 200 people attended an annual wreath-laying ceremony in Washington this weekend to honor their ancestors' lives as slaves in the area. The Washington Post said the descendants met at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens Saturday. Most of them wore traditional African clothing, and honored the memory of the individuals who were once forced to live as slaves in the area. The annual event is sponsored by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and Black Women United for... |
Statement of regret not enough, say anti-slavery groups
Preeti Jha Wednesday September 27, 2006 Guardian Unlimited
Statue of slave Detail from a statue of chained slaves by sculptor Bernard Jackson. Photograph: Mike Derer/AP The government has said it will consider issuing a "statement of regret" over Britain's role in the slave trade on the bicentenary of slavery's abolition in March, despite refusing earlier this year to make a formal apology.
The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, is due next month to chair a meeting of... |
Slave descendants attempt to revive reparations suit (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/74304,cst-nws-rep27.article)
September 27, 2006
BY ASHLEY M. HEHER Associated Press
Lawyers for slave descendants asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to a revive a landmark reparations case that demands 17 of the nation's insurers and banks publicize and pay for their roles in the country's slave trade.
The case, which names Wall Street behemoths JP Morgan Chase & Co., Aetna Inc., Bank of America and others, says the companies' predecessors issued loans... |
Milton Henry, 87, Lawyer Sought Slavery Reparations
BY Associated Press September 18, 2006
The Reverend Milton Henry, a civil rights lawyer and black separatist who sought to create a provisional government of former slave states, including Mississippi, died September 9 of natural causes. He was 87.
Henry, of Bloomfield Hills, Miss., was a pallbearer at the 1965 funeral of Malcolm X.
He became the first vice president of the Republic of New Afrika, which sought $200 million in reparations from the federal government for the nation's history... |
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Benin's dark past of slavery By Sue Branford BBC News, Benin
Few tourists reach Benin yet this West African nation has a remarkable story to tell about one of the most shameful episodes in history.
A massive, arched gateway, some 50 feet high, stands alone on the edge of one of the loveliest beaches in West Africa.
It is a striking - and in many ways a beautiful - structure, facing out across the Atlantic Ocean towards South America.
Yet it is also bleak beyond words.
Etched across the top of the arch are two long lines of naked,... |
ILS NE CONNAISSENT PAS LOUIS DELGRES
Guadeloupe : les séquelles de l'esclavage LE MONDE | 15.08.06 | 13h44 • Mis à jour le 16.08.06 | 10h01
Couchée sur l'Atlantique, Marie-Galante rêve. Elle regarde sans vraiment les voir les touristes diaphanes qui débarquent sur le port de Grand-Bourg. Ils ont fait une heure de bateau depuis Pointe-à-Pitre pour se coller à son sable chaud et manger du poisson avec les doigts. Ils effleureront paresseusement cette île puis s'en iront, la peau hâlée, une bouteille de rhum sous le bras.
Combien sauront... |
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/chi-0608020243aug02,1,6628374.story?coll=chi-newslocalssouthwest-hed Activist sues 102 firms on slavery disclosure Advertisement By Michael Higgins Tribune staff reporter August 2, 2006 A local activist has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit against 102 businesses and other entities, alleging they violated a 2002 city... |
02/08/2006 01:40 PM - (SA) Slavery of the mind is the worst Emile Jansen, Grassy Park
"THEIR revolution is being televised, enslaving our minds through our eyes."
South Africans are addicted to and obsessed with foreign actors, artists, personalities and movies. Do we realise the amount
of money that is lost to royalty payments to foreign artists?
Do we know how many jobs are being destroyed by the constant preference given to USA and European artists in our media?
Do we realise why we have so few role models... |
Expert suggests reparation by the West for African slavery
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 07/13 - As the second Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora (CIAD II) opened
Wednesday in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, a panelist on poverty, racism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimination suggested
that countries that benefited the most from the African slave trade should provide the vital resources to the New
Partnership for Africa`s Development (NEPAD).
Njunga Mulikita, a Zambian expert on democracy and governance issues, said the gathering... |
Slavery reparations movement rolls Some insist blacks due compensation
By Erin Texeira, Associated Press | July 10, 2006
NEW YORK -- Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly
chalking up victories and gaining momentum.
Fueled by the work of scholars and lawyers, their campaign has morphed in recent years from a fringe-group rallying cry
into a sophisticated, mainstream movement. Most recently, a pair of churches apologized for their part in the slave trade, and
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Noirs d'Amérique Latine
Afro argentins rayés de l’histoire (Première partie)
Par guyzoducamer, samedi 1 juillet 2006 à 20:59 :: Général :: #1161 :: rss
Buenos Aires fut l'une des principales portes d'entrée par laquelle accostèrent les bateaux négriers qui avaient enlevé mes
ancêtres et les vôtres de notre Mère Patrie, l'Afrique.
Deuxième partie Lucía Dominga Molina
Il n'y avait pas de plantations ou des mines impliquant la présence d'un grand nombre d'esclaves noirs sur le territoire
représentant aujourd'hui... |
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
Compiled from Archive, library and Internet source documentation, this timeline on Slavery and in part the History of
Racism, has been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of enslaved Americans of African
descent at historic sites located at the National Zoo, in Washington, DC. Hopefully, this compilation of American history will
help others who undertake similar tasks.
This project has been conducted totally independently from research conducted by the Office... |
A quick look at slavery reparations efforts 7/9/2006, 1:58 p.m. ET The Associated Press
(AP) — Some key recent developments in the push for slavery reparations:
_Every year since 1989, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has pushed unsuccessfully for a federal law ordering a study of
reparations.
_Disclosure laws have prompted companies including health provider Aetna Inc. and financiers Lehman Brothers and
Wachovia Corp. to apologize for slavery ties. After JPMorgan Chase reported that two of its predecessor banks owned more
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