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But Ghana is leading the way in another aspect of trying to heal the damage done by the slave trade.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, the Ga Mantse, leader of Ghana's Ga people, recently took the step of publicly apologising for his ancestors' involvement in the slave trade.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

The insect’s first trips west came soon after, as the transatlantic slave trade brought ships packed with enslaved Africans to the New World.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Six weeks earlier, Brown had raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, in what was then Virginia, aiming to foment a slave insurrection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In 1518, the Spanish government created a system that licensed slave traders to bring Africans to the New World.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Piah referenced how Liberia had been founded as a nation in the early 19th Century as a settlement for former slaves and freed black people from the United States and the Caribbean.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Jamestown is one of the oldest districts in the city, a community originally built around a British coastal fort where slaves were brought, traded and then sent on ships to the Americas.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

The people of South Memphis have suffered through years of pollution from factories in Boxtown, founded by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

To greatly simplify, the 14th Amendment was originally a response to a Supreme Court decision, the Dred Scott case, that said freed Black slaves could not be U.S. citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Washington did not think his slaves “would be benefitted by the change,” he wrote to his personal secretary.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The famous staircase, the kitchen where Alice merrily slaved away, the bedrooms — all were built on a sound stage, making our memories of the house as real as anything else on the show.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2019

My mother slaved for two days, even hiring a cook to assist her.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017

The house her father slaved away to build for his new bride in the 1930s.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2016

Kee slaved away on features about the way Britain was shaping up for the future and trying to live down its colonial past.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2013

All day I slaved away, scrubbing down her porch, sorting buttons, picking dead flies from her screen door.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

St. Patrick offered evocative details of slaving and missionary work in the lands around the Irish Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

At the time Bristol was a major slaving port.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2023

Hergé, the illustrator and writer of Tintin and another of my great heroes, once drew a picture of himself slaving at the desk, with Tintin holding a whip over him showing a sort of disdain.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022

“I made $5,000, that was huge! My entire income for the whole year before was $9,000 slaving away on drywall jobs.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2021

You can go and find honest work slaving away at the looms or assembly lines, but who knows?

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros