Mr. Rich Goes to Brazil!

Cartoon Riots Spread Across the World

A series of cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and republished throughout Europe, have sparked a series of major worldwide protests. Danish embassies were destroyed in Syria and Lebanon. European leaders are calling the issue the gravest cultural clash with the Muslim world since the publication of Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Muslims consider [...]

African "Complicity" in the Slave Trade

“As early as 1445, the Portuguese found it easier to buy slaves in Africa than to capture them; and although they did mount some military expeditions in Angola, they and all other European traders obtained the overwhelming majority of their slaves by purchase. The most common trade good was cloth, but in different times and [...]