Joe Biden to make speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery in what could be his last foreign trip as presidentJoe Biden will address America’s history of enslavement in a speech on Tuesday at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery, during a trip in which he is also expected to laud recent US investment in the region.Biden’s visit to the museum will take in the 17th-century Capela da Casa Grande, where enslaved people were forcibly baptised before being trafficked across the Atlantic. About 4 million Angolans were enslaved in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century, most in Brazil. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/03/us-history-of-enslavement-in-spotlight-joe-biden-angola
Author : Rachel Savage Southern Africa correspondent and agencies
Publish date : 2024-12-03 10:52:00
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US history of enslavement in spotlight as Biden speaks in Angola
