The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. This is Part 5 in the ongoing series. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others. Rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” — Frederick Douglass “Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe The greatest prison anyone can escape from is ignorance.” — Matshona Dhliwayo “These Negroes aren’t asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.” — Malcolm X Five centuries ago – on Aug. 18, 1518, to be exact – the King of Spain, Charles...
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