From Twitter

These past few weeks in the twittersphere, Christienna Fryar talked to researchers Katie Donnington, Meleisa Ono-George, and Hannah Young on women and slavery, from female slaveowners in Britain to women on Caribbean plantations. Listen to the BBC Radio3 program here. 

A Dutch exhibition offers new insight into the Berbice slave uprising. Learn more here. 

Two statues in central London depicting a pair of historical figures with sordid links to the transatlantic slave trade are scheduled to be removed. Find out more here. 

Each year on the last Wednesday of June, dozens of people arrive by boat at the Jewish cemetery of Beth Haim, to commemorate their ancestors. The visitors are almost all black; none are Jewish. Learn why the Dutch Jewish cemetery has become a black pilgrimage site here.