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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, ... New World slaves were considered the property of their owners, and slaves convicted of revolt or murder were executed. Slave market regions and participation Major slave trading regions of Africa, ...
Eve Glasberg. May 29, 2024. What was distinctive about the evil of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such historical wrongs, even while recognizing that they lie beyond repair?
Arab slave-trading caravan transporting African slaves across the Sahara, 19th-century engraving. Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, ... In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies. He was not, however, as some ...
So many bodies of dead or dying Africans were jettisoned into the ocean that sharks regularly followed the slave ships on their westward journey. The Middle Passage supplied the New World with its major workforce and brought enormous profits to international slave traders.
2 The Hazards of the Bristol Slave Trade; 3 Slave-ship Sociology; 4 The Unfortunate Shipwright, or, the Trials of Robert Barker; 5 Mutiny and Murder on Bristol’s Long-haul Ships, 1720–70; 6 Bristol Privateering in the Mid-eighteenth Century; 7 The Impressment of James Caton, 1779; 8 New York in Bristol: the Crugers
Horace Greeley. Related Topics: slavery. social movement. personal-liberty laws. abolitionism, (c. 1783–1888), in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.
Mutiny and Murder on Bristol’s Long-haul Ships, 1720–70; Nicholas Rogers, York University, Toronto; Book: Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era; Online publication: 08 May 2024; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805431787.006
