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Africa’s “Bigger Slave Problem" - More pressing than Democrats’ quest for reparations Posted on Last year Joe Biden said African Americans who don’t support him “ain’t black,” but this year the Delaware Democrat is open to reparations for slavery, America’s “original sin,” according to the composite character president David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. A neglected historical account provides enlightenment on slavery’s true origins and its most enduring practitioners. In 1856, British Army officer John Hanning Speke set out to find the...

Courtesy of Bonhams The manuscript journal of Colonel Christopher Rigby sold for £56,500 ($78,200). London — The handwritten journal of Colonel Christopher Rigby, British Consul on Zanzibar, recording his strenuous attempts to put a stop to the business of slavery in the Sultanate, and his success in securing freedom for thousands of individual slaves sold for £56,500 at Bonhams Travel and Exploration sale in London on February 10. It had been estimated at £10,000-15,000. The sale made more than £880,000 with 84% sold by lot and 87% sold by value. Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-...