Zong slave ship trial
Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of...
Category : International
Leusden Slave Ship Tragedy
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The history of this slave ship has gone almost entirely unnoticed until now. This is remarkable given that its final voyage ended in the single...
The Zong massacre
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In August 1781, a British slave ship, the Zong, left Ghana with 442 slaves aboard – twice the number it was designed to carry –...
Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ Speech
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This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April...
The Sans Souci Palace
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The Sans-Souci Palace was built to serve as a residence for the revolutionary leader Henri Christophe, who would become king in 1811, a year into...
Haitian Revolution
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Haitian Revolution, series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804 between Haitian slaves, colonists, the armies of the British and French colonizers, and a number of...
Theodor Herzl
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Theodor Herzl, (born May 2, 1860, Budapest, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now in Hungary]—died July 3, 1904, Edlach, Austria), founder of the political form of Zionism,...
The Uganda Proposal Zionist Congress, August 26, 1903
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When Theodor Herzl began his quest to establish a homeland for the Jewish people, he sought out the support of the great powers to help...
From the Caribbean to Queensland: re-examining Australia’s ‘blackbirding’ past and its roots in the global slave trade
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There are moves afoot to scrub colonial businessman Benjamin Boyd’s name from the map. The owners of historic Boydtown on the NSW south coast are...
The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
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Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it...