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transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
- Triangular trade | Definition, Route, & System | Britannica
The first leg of the triangular trade began in Europe, from...
- Transatlantic slave trade - Middle Passage, African Diaspora, Trade ...
The most famous such incident occurred when in 1839 a slave...
- Triangular trade | Definition, Route, & System | Britannica
The Gulf of Mexico was utilized by privateers in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas to smuggle enslaved Africans from Cuba. Texas participated in the illegal slave trade and imported enslaved persons from Cuba to Galveston Island which was the main illegal slave port in Texas.
The most famous such incident occurred when in 1839 a slave named Joseph Cinqué led a mutiny of 53 illegally purchased enslaved people on the Spanish slave ship Amistad, killing the captain and two members of the crew. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ordered the Africans to be returned to their homes.
On August 24, 2007, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone issued a public apology for London's role in Atlantic slave trade, which took place at an event commemorating the 200th anniversary of the British slave trade's abolition. In his speech, Livingstone described the slave trade as "the racial murder of not just those who were ...
In modern societies brutality and sadistic murder of slaves by their owners were rarely condoned on the grounds that such episodes demoralized other slaves and made them rebellious, but few slave owners were actually punished for maltreating their slaves.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade is the umbrella term for the 300-year triangular pattern of ship routes which included the forced movement of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, the shipment of raw materials from the Americas to European manufacturing centers, and the return of finished goods from Europe to Africa.
Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery.
