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Hace 1 día · In Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition, Kathleen Brown examines the history of the anti-slavery movement through the lens of the study of the body.In doing so, she creates a fruitful method of synthesizing a story about race, medical history, science, and bodies with a story about politics, rights, and the meaning of freedom.
Hace 3 días · The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Hace 1 día · Anne C. Bailey, African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame (New York: Beacon Press, 2006), p. 72: “My preferred analogy, given that a trade in human beings, though marginal, did exist prior to European arrival, is to view the European and American presence as a match that was lit to bits of paper on the African coast.
Hace 3 días · Traces the rise and decline of the slave trade, from the regular trade and shipping of enslaved peoples, to the rise of the abolition movement and its impact on the government of the islands. Topics include estate ownership, plantation governance and labor, finance and economy, mutiny and piracy, uprisings and revolts, and more.
Hace 3 días · Congress declined to pass any restriction on the lucrative interstate slave trade, which expanded to replace the supply of African slaves (see Slavery in the United States#Slave trade). Manumission by Southern owners. After 1776, Quaker and Moravian advocates helped persuade numerous slaveholders in the Upper South to free their slaves.
Hace 5 días · VOA’s Mayra de Lassalette and Betty Ayoub traveled to Angola where they heard accounts of the fierce resistance to the slave trade. A series of special reports commemorating the 400th ...
Hace 2 días · The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic; of the roughly 10–12 million Africans who were sold by the Barbary slave trade, either to European slavery or to servitude in the Americas, approximately 388,000 landed in ...
