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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Crime Against Humanity
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
03 Apr 2026
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Black Agenda Radio · Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Crime Against Humanity

Kwesi Pratt Jr. is General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana. He joins us from Accra, Ghana to discuss the recent United Nations General Assembly resolution, which declared that the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans was the “gravest crime against humanity” which enriched the U.S. and Europe.

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Transatlantic Slave Trade
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