The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later, Are We Still Slaves?
(WorldNews Africa)

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. This is Part 5 in the ongoing series. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others. Rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.` - Frederick Douglass `Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe The greatest prison anyone can escape from is ignorance.` - Matshona Dhliwayo `These Negroes aren´t asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.` - Malcolm X Five centuries ago - on Aug. 18, 1518, to be exact - the King of Spain, Charles...