During the African Holocaust, African people were enslaved, stripped of their names and language and labelled ‘slaves’ as a means to dehumanise and disconnect them from their families and homes in Africa. The phrase ‘slave trade’ is regularly used to describe the African Holocaust as if to lend an air of moral and legal legitimacy to what was the most horrific crime ever perpetrated on humankind by humankind. Enslaved Africans were murdered, raped and denied basic human rights by Europeans who created laws to attempt to legitimise their barbaric actions.

‘Negroes’ or Slaves were not taken from Africa. Africans were taken from Africa. It is important we no longer perpetuate this derogatory and inaccurate label, do not refer to our ancestors as slaves, they were and always have been African people.

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