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Velekete Slave Market: The Marketplace Where African Chiefs Sold Enslaved People to European Slave Traders

The Velekete Slave Market served as a business point between African middlemen and European slave merchants and facilitated the forced migration of thousands of Africans to the Americas, where they were subjected to generations of enslavement and exploitation.
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The Tempati Uprising of 1757: The Slave Rebellion That Challenged Dutch Rule in Suriname

On 22 February 1757, enslaved Africans at a timber plantation in Dutch-controlled Suriname rose against their enslavers. What followed...