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UN names African slave trade ‘gravest crime against humanity’ – Eye on Africa

UN names African slave trade ‘gravest crime against humanity’ – Eye on Africa

Published by Sam Flores

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again EYE ON AFRICA © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 25/03/2026 – 22:35 14:39 min From the show Reading time 1 min In tonight’s edition: The UN General Assembly designates the transatlantic African slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity”, in a move that advocates hail as a step towards healing and possible reparations. Also, in a visit to top African trading partner Algeria, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the two nations will work to increase deliveries of Algerian gas. Plus how the conflict in the Middle East risks crippling Kenya’s flower industry. Produced by Vedika Bahl and Antonia Cimini Source link

Smithsonian Slave Ship Artifact Returns to South Africa

Smithsonian Slave Ship Artifact Returns to South Africa

Published by Jenni Sidey

A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC. According to the Associated Press, the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from the São José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off the coast of Cape Town in 1794 while carrying more than 400 captive Africans. The 33-pound piece of wood, displayed in the museum’s “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition since 2016, will return to the Iziko Museums of South Africa when its loan agreement expires this year. Related Articles Museum officials say the artifact’s final day on view will be March 22. The timber sits at the center of one of the museum’s most solemn spaces, a dimly lit gallery devoted to the Middle Passage, the brutal Atlantic crossing that carried millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Suspended over a dark void beside ballast stones once used on the ship, the fragment offers a rare physical connection to the vessels that …

Mother who held woman captive as a slave for 25 years jailed | UK News

Mother who held woman captive as a slave for 25 years jailed | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

A mother who held a woman captive as a slave inside her “squalid” home for 25 years has been sentenced to 13 years. Amanda Wixon, 56, forced the woman – now in her 40s – to shave her hair, regularly beat her if she didn’t complete jobs around the home, and made her live off “scraps” of food. It’s also understood that while being held, Wixon, a mother of 10, stole more than £100,000 in benefits from the victim. Wixon will serve two-thirds of her sentence. Image: Amanda Wixon, 56, arrives at Gloucester Crown Court. Pic: PA Police officers who arrived at the house in Tewskesbury, Gloucestershire, following a tip-off from one of Wixon’s sons in March 2021, described the victim’s bedroom as looking like a “prison cell”. They found a basic bed with filthy sheets, bare plaster walls with mould growing on them and no light bulb. The woman, who we can only identify as “K”, has learning difficulties and knew Wixon when she was a child, through family connections. In 1996, she was …

The Rise of the ‘Slave Power’ Conspiracy

The Rise of the ‘Slave Power’ Conspiracy

Published by José Betancourt

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of the 1850s. It was said that Robert Toombs, the ardently pro-slavery Georgia senator, was going to come to Boston and “call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill.” It’s not clear where the notion of a southern politician taking enslaved people to a sacred Revolutionary battlefield came from—whether Toombs spread it to troll the high-minded, antislavery Bostonians, or whether the Bostonians themselves conjured it from their own fever dreams. The nightmare never came to pass, but it was the kind of idea—conspiratorial, frightening, plausible—that flourishes in a highly charged political environment. These were the conditions in which The Atlantic was established: information overload and profound uncertainty. By the end of 1857, no one knew the crack-up of the Union was coming in three years, or that the nation would be in a civil war in four, but the …

‘The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850’

‘The US crisis around ICE evokes the one sparked by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850’

Published by Sam Flores

Footage of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers forcefully detaining undocumented immigrants on the streets or at workplaces – particularly in states that oppose such methods – and the determined resistance of protesters intent on defending those targeted, evoke another major crisis in American democracy: the one triggered by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. So too does the heart-wrenching fate of immigrants who have built their lives in the United States, only to be deported to countries they left decades earlier, often facing family separation. The intention here is not to equate the plight of today’s undocumented immigrants with that of 19th-century fugitive slaves. Their legal status and the history of their presence in the US are distinct. Rather, the goal is to highlight the similarities between their experiences and to point out the resemblances between two defining crises in American democracy: the current crisis roiling the country and the one that set the stage for the Civil War in 1861. This comparison sheds light on the paradoxical role of the federal government, …

Monster mum beat and kept woman as slave in her squalid home for 25 years – ‘not sorry’ | UK | News

Monster mum beat and kept woman as slave in her squalid home for 25 years – ‘not sorry’ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

Monster mother assaulted and held woman as slave for 25 years – ‘not sorry’ (Image: PA Media) A teenage girl with learning difficulties was held captive as a slave for 25 years at the hands of a monster woman with ten children, a court has heard. The girl, who is now in her 40s and will remain anonymous, was splashed in the face with bleach, had washing-up liquid poured down her throat, and was beaten with a broom handle, which knocked out her teeth. Her head was also repeatedly shaved against her will. Judge Ian Lawrie said Mandy Wixon’s crimes had a “Dickensian quality” as the court heard she had forced a vulnerable woman to clean her squalid and overcrowded home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and made her eat scraps. Read more: Campaigners given fresh hope as they call for child abusers to face restrictions Read more: Grantchester’s Robson Green makes tearful show admission ‘I was struggling’ The victim was kept in a filthy room (Image: Gloucestershire Police) The 56-year-old captor was found guilty of false …

Mother-of-10 kept woman as ‘house slave’ for more than 25 years | UK News

Mother-of-10 kept woman as ‘house slave’ for more than 25 years | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

A teenage girl with learning difficulties spent more than 25 years working as a “house slave” for a woman and her 10 children, a court has heard. From 1995 until 2021, the woman – now in her 40s – was trapped in the squalid home of 56-year-old Amanda Wixon in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. There she endured regular beatings and was hit with a broom handle, knocking out her teeth, the jury was told. She also had washing up liquid squirted down her throat, bleach splashed on her face, and her head repeatedly shaved against her will. Image: The victim’s bedroom. Pic: PA Image: Police bodycam footage of the victim’s bedroom. Pic: Gloucestershire Police Trapped in a ‘prison cell’ The home in the Priors Park area was overcrowded and dirty, with plaster hanging off the mouldy walls, and rubbish strewn across the back garden. The woman lived off scraps, and despite the grim conditions, was not allowed to leave, nor even to wash, doing so secretly at night. Police said the woman’s benefits had also been paid …