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Vor 2 Tagen · The transatlantic slave trade was primarily a triangular route from Europe to Africa, to the Americas and back to Europe. On the first leg, merchants exported goods to Africa in return for enslaved Africans, gold, ivory and spices. The ships then travelled across the Atlantic -- the so-called “Middle Passage” -- to the Americas.
Vor einem Tag · The slave trade, lightly taxed and regulated, flourished in all reaches of the Roman Empire and across borders. In antiquity, slavery was seen as the political consequence of one group dominating another, and people of any race, ethnicity, or place of origin might become slaves, including freeborn Romans.
21. Mai 2024 · Liberated Africans is a digital publication that details the operation of international court systems and their involvement and effort in stopping the slave trade throughout the 19th century. The title derives from what the court systems called the emancipated Africans. After the United States and Britain curtailed international and maritime slave trade in 1807-8, more anti-slave-trade ...
13. Mai 2024 · Slavery is a marginal practice in the colony until around the turn of the 18th century, when the trans-Atlantic slave trade expands dramatically. Fewer than 1,000 Africans arrive in Maryland ...
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Vor 4 Tagen · The emotion-laden ethical dimension of the slave trade further compounds the difficulty of the author’s task. With Crossings: Africa, the Americas, and the Atlantic Slave Trade, James Walvin has admirably answered the challenge of writing a small book on one of history’s largest tragedies. Walvin, a slave-trade scholar of four decades ...
7. Mai 2024 · Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Colonialism and the slave trade were, at best, minor factors in Britain’s prosperity and may have been net lossmakers. The British Empire and the slave trade were not responsible for the United Kingdom’s prosperity, according to new research from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank. This analysis comes amid a renewed ...
