African slave trade

Sorel Liqueur, Adored By The Trade And Consumers, Will Relaunch This Summer

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Thursday, June 24, 2021
Continents, African slave trade, Black British history, Slavery in the United States, Jackie Summers, European colonization of the Americas, Slavery in South America, African diaspora, Atlantic slave trade, Sorel, Places, Americas

"Across the African diaspora, there's an ancestral memory of 'The Red Drink'" says Sorel creator, Jackie Summers.

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  • "Across the African diaspora, there's an ancestral memory of 'The Red Drink'" says Sorel creator, Jackie Summers.
  • "As part of the Transatlantic slave trade, the knowledge of this drink and its medicinal properties traveled alongside enslaved Africans to the Americas.
  • Sorel Liqueur's official relaunch will take place on June 24th, a date that holds personal significance for Summers, who failed 623 times at creating a shelf-stable version of this centuries-old beverage.
  • 624 boxes of Sorel signed by Jackie Summers will be immediately available as part of a pre-sales on the site.

The 1619 Project Criticized as Insufficiently Celebratory of American Capitalism in Heritage Foundation Report

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Articles, Economy, Economic ideologies, Slavery in the United States, Historical revisionism, African slave trade, Social philosophy, The 1619 Project, Capitalism, Libertarianism, Slavery

Recently, the Heritage Foundation published a report, Capitalism in the 1619 Project, seeking to disqualify the 1619 Project curricular materials as insufficiently celebratory of American capitalism.

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  • Recently, the Heritage Foundation published a report, Capitalism in the 1619 Project, seeking to disqualify the 1619 Project curricular materials as insufficiently celebratory of American capitalism.
  • The report primarily asserts that the 1619 Project overstates slavery's importance to U.S. economic history.
  • As Rockman explains, the report is less concerned with potential students' content knowledge about slavery than with students' receptivity to the libertarian policy preferences of the Heritage Foundation.
  • The report is disconnected from the educational research literature and current scholarly literature on both American slavery and history pedagogy.

Captivating New Biography on James Bruce Reveals Mission to Eradicate Slavery

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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Humans, Occupations, Continents, African slave trade, Slavery in South America, Bruce, Reeve, Atlantic slave trade, Espionage

OXFORD, England, May 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Author Jane Aptekar Reeve learned about historical figure, James Bruce and his exploits after her travels to Ethiopia.

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  • OXFORD, England, May 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Author Jane Aptekar Reeve learned about historical figure, James Bruce and his exploits after her travels to Ethiopia.
  • Fascinated by his compelling life, Reeve conducted extensive research of his life and compiled it into her deeply intriguing biography, Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade: James Bruce and his Secret Mission to Africa.
  • Bruces work as an espionage agent seeking to eradicate slavery across the Mediterranean and Red Seas is uncovered from Reeves research of Britains National Archives.
  • Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade: James Bruce and his Secret Mission to Africa

USA TODAY Launches “1619: Searching for Answers” with an Interactive Augmented Reality Exposé Observing 400 Years Since the Landing of the First Enslaved Africans in Virginia

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Thursday, August 22, 2019
Publishing, TV and Radio, Communications, Consumer, Other Consumer, Entertainment, Racism, Americas, Continents, African slave trade, Slavery in the United States, Colony of Virginia, Atlantic slave trade, Slavery

USA TODAY, part of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), today launched the series 1619: Searching for Answers to observe 400 years since the first enslaved Africans landed in Point Comfort, Virginia in August of 1619.

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  • USA TODAY, part of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), today launched the series 1619: Searching for Answers to observe 400 years since the first enslaved Africans landed in Point Comfort, Virginia in August of 1619.
  • The project highlights the Tucker family, who believe its American journey began with some of the first slaves who landed in the British colony of Virginia.
  • Earlier this month, USA TODAY journalists traveled with Wanda Tucker from Virginia to Angola, where she believes her ancestors were captured and enslaved.
  • The experience can be found within the new augmented reality section of the USA TODAY mobile app for iOS and Android.

400 Year Anniversary Of American Slavery In America

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Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Slavery, American Civil War, African diaspora, African slave trade, Cultural history of the United States, Economic history of the United States, Slavery in the United States, White supremacy in the United States, Reparations for slavery, Human rights abuses

During the conference, American Slaves, Inc. will unveil its people-friendly reparations for slavery plan!

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  • During the conference, American Slaves, Inc. will unveil its people-friendly reparations for slavery plan!
  • American Slaves, Inc. is a nonprofit organization established in 2001 to represent the American slave culture: Our mission is threefold: properly identify American slaves, guide descendants of American slaves to the economic battlefield that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. foretold, andassimilate descendants of American slaves into mainstream America properly.
  • American Slaves, Inc. (ASI) is an organization in America that understands the negative aftereffects of slavery and how they work.
  • "If you want to be a part of the 400 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA then create a short video explaining how the vestiges of slavery impact your life, click on the link and send the video to - [email protected] ."

Birthright AFRICA Receives Sponsorship From HBO and Supports the President of Ghana's Declaration of 2019 as the "Year of Return"

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Monday, March 18, 2019
Americas, Continents, African slave trade, Atlantic slave trade, Black British history, Colonization of the Americas, Racism, Contents, Birthright, Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown, Shabazz

Formed in 2015, by co-founders Walla Elsheikh and Diallo Shabazz, Birthright AFRICA is creating the next generation of global leaders and entrepreneurs.

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  • Formed in 2015, by co-founders Walla Elsheikh and Diallo Shabazz, Birthright AFRICA is creating the next generation of global leaders and entrepreneurs.
  • Birthright AFRICA is commemorating 2019 as the "Year of Return" in Ghana, marking the 400 year anniversary of the first ship of enslaved Africans arriving in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.
  • This year, the organization will be sending 100 Scholars in collaboration with partners including the City University of New York.
  • HBO also recently signed on as a corporate sponsor of Birthright AFRICA.