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World Service,18 Mar 2007,22 mins,

The Road to Emancipation

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The story of the Atlantic slave trade told through letters, memoirs and historical research. Episode two - the road to abolition and emancipation. What were the acts of rebellion and sacrifice that brought the slave trade to an end? Who were the heroes of the story? "The early African abolitionists were people who were initially accommodating toward indigenous forms of that institution but were then pricked in their consciences by the ravages of the transatlantic slave system." Kenyan scholar Ali Alamin Mazrui

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