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  • 16 Feb 2013
    Money, church, freedom, state and slavery

    It is not often that 120 or more people turn for a book launch these days. But what took place at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church in Scotland's capital yesterday evening (15 February 2013) was no routine publishing party.

  • 5 Jan 2011
    Three inscriptions about enslaving ideology

    At the beginning of the first volume of Selena Axelrod Winsnes' English translation of Danish sources on West African history, originally published from 1697 to 1822, there is a reproduction of the opening text from a slave ship captain's log. It records the commencing of a journey "In the Name of Jesus."

  • 4 Feb 2009
    Both victims and perpetrators

    In the grey zone, we are all both victims and perpetrators, says Giles Fraser, who has visited one of the major sites of the slave trade. In the grey zone, morality is no longer simple. We need honesty, wisdom and divine mercy to face the facts hopefully.

  • 22 Mar 2007
    Tony Blair should make clear slavery apology, says world churches chief

    The head of the World Council of Churches has asked PM Tony Blair to change his mind and make an unambiguous apology for Britain's involvement in the slave trade.

  • 20 Mar 2007
    How the Bible was used to justify slavery

    Giles Fraser reflects on John Newton’s painful conversion from uncritical theology

  • 18 Jan 2007
    Anti-slavery campaign to commemorate abolition of transatlantic trade

    Christians urged to back new anti-slavery campaign running throughout 2007 as millions around the world still wait to be set free.