Bits & Bobs cont'd
Jose Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Gallery acquires early image of black woman by Scottish artist
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59322417
Afrori books. Books by black authors – Afrori Books LTD
About Us – Spread the Word
https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/about-us/
‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state | US prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/florida-unpaid-prison-labor
Why Slavery is Still Legal in America – And How Voters Can Take Action
https://www.naacpldf.org/13th-amendment-emancipation/
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
NEW Digital Directory of Black British History Month(s): Force for Change
https://chronicleworld.co.uk/digital-networks-for-black-history-months-force-for-change/
Casting: Does Race and Ethnicity Matter?
https://intimateexcellent.com/2011/12/13/casting-does-race-and-ethnicity-matter/
US school district where students held mock slave auction settles with DoJ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/13/tennesse-school-racism-doj
Ethnic minorities in Parliament: a new addition to the Victorian Commons
NAACP threatens American Airlines with travel ban after it cited body odor when removing 8 Black men from flight
Blackboy Lane - update on wasteful, ignorant attempt to signal virtue
https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/blackboy-lane-update-on-wasteful-ignorant-attempt-to-signal
From 19th-century black pioneer to cultural ambassador of Coventry
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/13/black-theatre-ira-aldridge-coventry-slavery
Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention
https://apnews.com/general-news-d26243702f11e27b59b591332bb6775e
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion: Greenwood Milestones in African American History
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/encyclopedia-of-slave-resistance-and-rebellion-9780313332715/
“The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present” Opens at the Anacostia Community Museum Nov. 8 | Smithsonian Institution
Deed of Emancipation of a Negro Woman Slave, Dated Mexico, September 14, 1585 | Hispanic American Historical Review | Duke University Press
Afro Mexican History – a trip to 3 museums
https://youtu.be/Rih-EwCPGFg?si=2Nn7obJGRolezKiN
The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/chinese-merchant-seamen-liverpool-deportations
Three more teenagers are arrested over alleged hate crime after shocking footage showed Black schoolboy being hit and told to 'kiss shoes' by tormenter
The Lost Story of New York’s Most Powerful Black Woman
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/elizabeth-gloucester-black-history.html
Tory councillor who said ‘all white men should have a Black slave’ suspended
The Chocolate Hands of Belgium
https://karmacolonialism.org/the-chocolate-hands-of-belgium/
How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
An 1837 Portrait of an Enslaved Child, Obscured by Overpainting for a Century, Has Been Restored and Acquired by the Met
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/met-museum-acquires-enslaved-portrait-2350056
The illustrious mistress of Rose Hall
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2012/03/20/the-illustrious-mistress-of-rose-hall/
Murder on the Middle Passage by Nicholas Rogers review – slavery and the British empire - An atrocity unpunished ... forget the triumphant tales of abolition – the brutal death of a teenage slave girl reveals important truths of Britain’s imperial history
Thomas Harding (2022). White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery. (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014wz4
https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/thomas-harding/white-debt/9781474621076/