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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 ...
Prior to 1861 slave narratives produced by women numbered far fewer than those by male narrators. In fact the bibliography The Pen Is Ours, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond, includes only nine narratives published before 1861 either written or related by former enslaved African American women.Collins posits that the minimal number of enslaved women’s voices “heard from is ...
22 de jul. de 2021 · As the slave trade expanded over the following centuries, references to this fear continued to appear in the historical record. In the late eighteenth century, Olaudah Equiano discussed it, specifically recalling how the sight of the boiling pot on the slave ship had overpowered him “with horror and anguish” (Equiano 1793:46).
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17 de ene. de 2023 · By the time Igbo Landing took place in 1803, the slave trade in the Americas had existed for almost 200 years. Millions of healthy men and women were abducted from Africa and sent to the New World, where they toiled under harsh conditions on plantations along the southern coast, per History.. As the Library of Congress notes, the voyage from Africa to the New World was a tortuous one.
Tortures, murder, and every other imaginable barbarity and iniquity are practised upon the poor slaves with impunity. I hope the slave-trade will be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand. Olaudah Equiano calls for the abolition of slavery, 1789
28 de jul. de 2021 · “It was the largest murder case in the history of the slave trade, but no one ever talked about it,” the Surinamese Dutch whose ancestors were enslaved added. In July 2013, ...
