Historic 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia; 52 African and Asian countries many or all newly independent from colonialism, plus many famous & not famous early leaders of anti-colonial independence movements, plus both sympathetic & antipathic "voyeurs"
To foster dialogue between African diaspora, Africa & the African Union on reconstructing relationships; foster understanding and critical interp. of history, development, conditions, status, cultures of the diverse peoples of African descent in the socie
Why and how do domestic servitude and prostitution (always) seem to be the preponderant "overseas work opportunities" for so many African women and women of African descent?
Favorable review of Adam Hochschild book on end of Britain's trade in African people: "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves." Hochschild authored King Leopold's Ghost, about atrocities committed by Belgians in the C
Priscilla was 10-yr old African girl kidnapped from Sierra Leone & taken to Charleston,SC in 1756! Ed Ball ("Slaves in the Family") found her in his family's documents...
June is Caribbean American Heritage Month. 2005 Proclamation sponsored in US Congress by Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, Calif, member of Congressional Black Caucus.
"Le code noir raconte une très longue histoire qui commence à Versailles, à la cour du Roi Soleil, en mars 1685 et se termine à Paris en avril 1848 sous Arago, au début de l’éphémère IIe République. ..."
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