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Imperialism in North Africa: Autobiography, Fadhma Amrouche

Fadhma Amrouche was the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished, illiterate Berber peasant woman.

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Imperialism in North Africa: Report, M. Coriat

North Africa has long been home to ancient, diverse communities of Jews, originally from Spain, Italy, Palestine, or elsewhere.

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Imperialism in North Africa: Newspaper, Hubertine Auclert

From the middle of the 19th century on, European women settled in colonial empires in Asia and Africa in greater numbers. Some, even many, attempted to effect changes for the good of colonized women.

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Imperialism in North Africa: Letters, Lalla Zaynab

In North Africa, Muslim and Jewish women’s quotidian religiosity was expressed in popular observances and festivals preserved chiefly, but not exclusively, in oral traditions.

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In Motion: The African-American Migration Project

In Motion: The African-American Migration Project portrays the history of 13 defining migrations that formed and transformed African Americans from the 16th century to the present.
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The Interrelation of Colour

By 1969, international public opinion had begun to turn against the apartheid policies of the white minority regime in South Africa.

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Scouting – Helping to Prepare Leaders of Tomorrow

Jeremiah (J.J.M.) Nyagah was one of the most senior African members of the Kenya Boy Scout Association during the colonial era. Trained as a teacher, after independence he entered politics and became a cabinet minister in Jomo Kenyatta's government.

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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery: Slave Coffle

Born in present-day Ghana, young Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the young age of 13. Cugoano worked in the sugar fields of a Grenadan plantation until 1773.

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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery: Middle Passage

Born in present-day Ghana, young Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the young age of 13. Cugoano worked in the sugar fields of a Grenadan plantation until 1773.

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The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

The images document the history of enslavement in West and West Central Africa, the English and French Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States.