Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave trade. The estimated cost: $130 trillion in loss of people and production potential over the centuries. The estimated chance of success: zero...
...Goree Island, a rocky outcropping in the harbor of Dakar, Senegal, stands the Slave House, through which thousands of African captives passed on their way to the New World. I inspected the holding pens where terrified men and women were imprisoned until they could be loaded aboard a slave ship bound for America, and looked out across the Atlantic through what the guide called the Door of No Return. Like every other black American who has shared the experience, I wondered if some unknown ancestor of mine had walked through this very doorway, and I could not hold back...
Some months later, I visited the beach at Badagry, not far from Lagos, Nigeria, which was an important slave-trading port, a place where manacles and other purported relics of the commerce in human beings are on display. The proprietor, an aging woman, told some Nigerian friends of mine that she would charge them 50 kobo (about $1) to examine the artifacts. You, she said, pointing to me, pay two naira (about $4). I protested that if the chains were indeed genuine, which I doubted, they might have been used to bind one of my ancestors; therefore, I didn...
...address, delivered on June 16, when Lincoln was nominated as a senatorial candidate in Illinois to oppose Democrat Stephen Douglas, made headlines. What Lincoln said in Springfield -- that a nation half slave, half free was not permanently tenable -- proclaimed his no-compromise stand...
...archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that the burial ground -- the only such pre-Revolutionary cemetery known in the U.S. -- is one of the most significant discoveries of the century. Studies of children's skeletons, for example, indicate that as much as 50% of New York City's slave population died at birth or within the first years of life...