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Hace 6 días · The transatlantic slave trade. From 1640 to the early 19th century, an estimated 3.2 million enslaved African people were transported by Britain’s vast shipping industry. Lloyd’s was the global centre for insuring that industry. We are deeply sorry for the Lloyd’s market’s participation in the transatlantic slave trade.
10 de oct. de 2022 · Columbus was a mass killer and the father of the slave trade. It's an uncomfortable truth, but it's time to recognize that Christopher Columbus was responsible for over 3 million deaths. Owen ...
19 de jun. de 2020 · By Maïa de La Baume. Members of the European Parliament on Friday backed a resolution calling on the EU to recognize the slave trade as a “crime against humanity” and make December 2 the “European Day commemorating the Abolition of the Slave Trade.”. The resolution, backed by 493 MEPs with 104 voting against, is nonbinding but aims at ...
1 de ene. de 1996 · On the basis of primary data relating to the British trade, the paper examines varions issues concerning the hazards with which the traders had to contend in the transatlantic slave trade.
In John Babson’s 1860 History of Gloucester, for example, the word slave occurs only once—in the context of identifying a murder victim. 1 Babson, John James, 1860, History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport, p. 293. The word slavery also occurs once, but only in association with selectmen’s outrage against the 1773 tea tax—a famous prelude to the War ...
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1 de jul. de 2013 · AMSTERDAM — On Jan. 1, 1738, the Leusden, a Dutch West India Company slave ship carrying nearly 700 African men, women and children through what is now Suriname, became caught in a terrible ...
