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Slavery stole Africans' ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this

In a speech to mark Unesco’s campaign for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, UN secretary-general António Guterres told the United Nations general assembly earlier this year that the inequalities created by 400 years of the transatlantic chattel trade persist to this day. “We can draw a…

The Conversation · Aug 24, 2023

Pioneering Industrial Revolution method ‘taken from Jamaica and brought to Britain’

A process of converting scrap iron into wrought iron and credited to Henry Cort who was seen as one of the great innovators of the Industrial Revolution, was actually developed in Jamaica, a new study has found

Daily Mirror · Jul 6, 2023

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’

Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2023