British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals | Slavery

British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals | Slavery

The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found. The Crown’s... Read more »
Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds

Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds

Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the... Read more »
Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds

Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds | Dylan Thomas prize

British-Ghanaian author Caleb Azumah Nelson has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for his second novel Small Worlds, which judges described as “symphonic” and “viscerally moving”. Azumah Nelson, 30, was... Read more »
Subterranean Worlds and Liberatory Futures

Subterranean Worlds and Liberatory Futures

In recent years, ad hoc efforts to move people and abortion supplies on the down-low have earned comparison to the Underground Railroad, the loose activist network that helped enslaved people flee slave... Read more »
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