The Explainer: The ‘Curse of Ham’ – how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery
PAUL HAM, a lecturer in narrative history, looks at how “a grotesque misuse of the very words of the Bible” has been used to support the idea of slavery…
Books: An extraordinary life imagined on the page
DAVID ADAMS reads UK actor Paterson Joseph’s debut novel about the extraordinary life of Georgian Charles Ignatius Sancho…
London faces up to former role insuring Atlantic slave trade
London, UKReuters London is facing up to its role in insuring the slave trade as part of a sweeping global reassessment of history and racism. This reappraisal was triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while detaining […]
SIGHT-SEEING: A SHOT OF EMPATHY
In an article marking the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition on 23rd August, SUSY LEE, advocacy coordinator for Baptist World Aid Australia, reflects on the call for Christians to “free the oppressed, to speak up for justice for the poor and the marginalised”…