The Crown’s act of willful forgetting demonstrates how easy it was to overlook—then and now—the pivotal role played by the royal family in accelerating England’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the development of an Atlantic empire built on the backs and blood of African and Indigenous people.
Encyclopaedia Africana S
February 28, 2021
SARAH FORBES BONETTA
Less than a year after she arrived, however, young Bonetta developed a cough believed to be caused by the climate of Great Britain.
C Encyclopaedia Africana
October 12, 2020
OLUOLA KOSSOLA/CUDJO LEWIS
Oluale Kossola was taken from the Yoruba kingdom of Takkoi to Alabama in the 19th century. Photograph: Courtesy of McGill Studio Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
B Encyclopaedia Africana
September 2, 2020
BABATUNDE OLATUNJI
Baba sparked a deep sense of pride among African Americans by strongly promoting images of African culture, which in a subtle but significant way, helped set in motion the currents of the early civil rights movement,”
A Encyclopaedia Africana
September 1, 2020
AFRICAN RELIGION IN THE AMERICAS & BRAZIL
The African religions migrated to the Americas in the slave ships; carried into the region in the spiritual beliefs held by those whose bodies the colonisers had entrapped, kidnapped and enslaved.