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University of Essex, Colchester. E-mail: krikjm@essex.ac.uk. SUMMARY: This article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial ...
29 de abr. de 2024 · slave trade, the capturing, selling, and buying of enslaved persons. Slavery has existed throughout the world since ancient times, and trading in slaves has been equally universal. Enslaved persons were taken from the Slavs and Iranians from antiquity to the 19th century, from the sub-Saharan Africans from the 1st century ce to the mid-20th century, and from the Germanic, Celtic, and Romance ...
24 de nov. de 2021 · In late 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong, facing a shortage of water, threw overboard much of their ‘cargo’. The massacre of 133 African people and resulting law case – not for murder, but insurance – focuses attention to the treatment of enslaved people and, as James Walvin explores, reminds us that while Britain played a key role in abolition, its role in the global slave trade ...
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. It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and ...
12 de feb. de 1992 · Of the four, only the Dutch West India Company did in fact deal in the slave trade. Of the company's 3,000,000 florins in original capital, Jews contributed only 36,000, or 1.2 percent. In 1656 ...
Cast (in credits order) James Stewart. ... Billy Jim Hawkins. James Luisi. ... Andy Tyler. Warren J. Kemmerling.
Hawkins · Season 1 Episode 6 · Murder in the Slave Trade starring James Stewart, James Luisi, Warren J. Kemmerling and directed by Paul Wendkos. Get 20% off a Lifetime Plex Pass Enjoy this special deal, this Geek Week only.
