More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island. Bishop Silouan Silala Vea's ancestors were invited ...

(Image: Supplied) The people of 'Ata Island were just a fraction of more than 3,600 captured by slave ships bound for Peru in a process known as "blackbirding". Masked as paid labour, Pacific ...

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