Ota Benga Alliance For Peace, Healing and Dignity

This story originally appeared in Pambazuka News 302, May 3, 2007. The original is at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/41131

Trade in African slaves underpinned the British economy in the 18th
century: the rich and powerful, the monarchy and the Church. So why
was an enterprise that was so economically important ended so
abruptly in the first decade of the 19th century? Hakim Adi explains...

In March 2007 large-scale commemorative events were organised to mark
the bi-centenary of the parliamentary act to abolish the trans-  read more »