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Slavery

Race, Slavery, and African body markings in Colonial Brazil

August 23, 2021

In the 1700s, the gold rush in southeast Brazil created a high demand for mining labour. The Minas Gerais region became one of the main destinations for African slaves. For the first half of the century, demand was met …

History of The Middle Passage: From Igboland to America

Anthony Comegna

January 20, 2020

Along with Frederick Douglass, the most famous slave in history was probably Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was an Igbo, though there was no way for him to know that until his own Middle Passage. As an African ethnonym, the word Igbo …