For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance. It was a brief period when they were offered better food and rest by slave owners, ...
of 'slave-property' in Surinam. Son of Sir William Young 1st bart. (d. 1848, q.v.), MP for Cavan 1831-1855, Governor-General of New South Wales 1861-1867 and Governor-General of Canada 1869-1872. The ...
MP and Paymaster General, trustee of the National Gallery and the British Museum. Son of the London West India merchant Beeston Long (1710-1785) and grandson of Charles Long of Longville. Left ...
Reacting to news that Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill into law today, Amnesty International Zimbabwe’s Executive Director, Lucia Masuka, said: ...