“These individual stories, we think, are very precious,” Professor Diana Paton said, as a project seeks to make slavery-era testimonies accessible in Guyana.

L’ouvrage de référence « Réparations » d’Ana Lucia Araujo retrace l’histoire des demandes d’indemnités matérielles et financières du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Un éclairage précieux à l’aune du discours d’Emmanuel Macron, à l’occasion des 25 ans de la loi Taubira jeudi 21 mai, annoncé « sans tabou » sur le sujet.

A leading historian examines how the monarchy not only tolerated slavery but also administered it, profited from it and sanctioned its cruelties

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)

Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.

Royals profited handsomely from slavery, says this account.

Join us to discuss The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a 17th Century West African Port (Penguin/Allen Lane, 2025) by Toby Green (King's College London) Get the book here and use code UCPNE...

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.