Antiques auction selling neck shackles accused of ‘profiting from slavery’

Exclusive: Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says treating these objects as collectors’ items ‘should be looked at in horror’An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people in Zanzibar has been accused of “profiting from slavery”.Neck irons dated to the Omani-Arab dominated trade in enslaved people in east Africa, which ended after African resistance and British pressure in the late 19th century, will go on sale this weekend in Scotland. Continue reading...


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