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| History of Barbados  |
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| Barbados is the eastern-most Caribbean island. It is located at 13.4N, 54.4W. The island, which is less than one million years old, was created by the collision of the Atlantic crustal and Caribbean plates, along with a volcanic eruption. Later cora |
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| http://www.setallfree.net/bristol.html  |
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| Bristol's own legacy of the slave trade. Bristol made much riches and yet many people in Bristol would rather ignore this history, and deny its importance |
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| Institute of Karmic Guidance |
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| Dr Anthony Browder's site with resources for learning about the nature of the Afrikan mind, body and spirit. |
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| Jamaican History - Discover Jamaica |
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| 1783-1807
RODNEY'S VICTORY TO THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE
After Rodney's victory, the French and Spanish Governments made no further serious attempt to capture Jamaica. France was soon to have very grave troubles of her own, for in 1789 the F |
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| John Lynch Afrikan Education Project |
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| Home site for the John Lynch Afrikan Education Project for Afrikan community who want to learn about their collective heritage and identity. |
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| Ligali - African Bristish voice |
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| Africentric voices addressing untold and under-told perspectives on Maafa. |
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| Mark Aronowitz - History of Abolition |
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| This is the final project of Mark Aronowitz for Dr. Mandell's English 441 (The Romantics) class at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. It contains some of the art, history and literature of the British Abolition Movement and deals with the abolition of |
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| Marvin Rees - Observations on Life and Times |
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| Marvin Rees, a blog. |
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| Merchant Venturers - a bunch of smugglers? |
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| Were the Merchant Venturers just a bunch of smugglers? According to this article by Dr. Evan Jones of the University of Bristol, the 16th Century TYNDALLs,founding members of the Society, were smuggglers. So what else does that say about the history of the society? |
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| One hundred Great Black Britons |
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A site proposing a competition to vote for hundred greatest Black Britons. *voting ran 2003 - 2004). Well researched content, and links to other valuable sites. A good resource for discovering a collection of 'black British heroes'. "Black" is political. i.e. while there are many African-Caribbean and mixed heritage, it also features at least one Somali, and a very interesting Turkish-Palestinian.
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| Operation Truth 2007 |
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| A site that puts a Afri-centric struggle perspective on this 1807-2007 thing. |
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| Racist attack on an African in Bristol |
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Though most racism remains institutional, and unconscious, blatant attacks like this are still an feature of our lives. The most extreme ideas have to some extent been driven underground by policy and education, but here it how it surfaces. |
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| Rastafari speaks - on amnesia about Britain's role in American slaving |
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A thread in forum on Rastafari speaks drawing on historical evidence to the scale of Britain's role as "mother coutnry" in giving birth to the 'African-American'.
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| Rendezvous of Victory |
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| issues of Historical and Contemporary Enslavement, Human and Peoples’ Rights and Global Justice pertaining to Pan-Afrikan Heritage Learning, Community Regeneration and Sustainable Development. |
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| Set All Free |
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| Set All Free has been established by Churches Together in England to commemorate the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 2007 in ways which challenge modern society to engage with Christian values. The project aims to highlight how |
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| Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance |
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| Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale Center for International and Area Studies
The application deadline is April 3, 2006
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| Society of Merchant Venturers' link with The St. Monica's Trust |
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| In the 1940's St. Monica's Trust (Home of Rest established in 1922 by the Wills Woodbine tobacco company) purchased Milton Keynes village as a commercial opportunity. The St. Monica's Trust is part of the Society of Merchant Venturers' of Bristol. The land was held in trust by the Merchant Venturers' until it was bought by the Development Corporation.
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| The 2007 Question |
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| The UK Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) wants community based organisations and heritage institutions to apply for funding for projects focusing on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
(25th January 2006)
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| The Black Presence in Britain |
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Articles, Biogs, Books dicussion forum and other useful links.
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| The history of the Society |
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| The history of the Society is closely linked to the history of the city of Bristol. Although there is no clear documentary evidence the Society is believed to have evolved from a Guild of Merchants |
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