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Hace 3 días · 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 ...
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 logic of the British slave trade.
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28 de jul. de 2023 · To watch the full video on YouTube, please on the Image above.👆🏿 Although Britain ended the slave trade 32 years before the United States, not much is known about her dark and covert slave history, which lasted from 1662 to 1807. ... The slave trade remained covert until the murder of 132 slaves on the 29th of November, 1781.
16 de sept. de 2017 · The grand jury indicted Eliza on the murder charge, and a bench warrant was issued for Eliza’s arrest. Eliza, on May 5, 1847, was arraigned in the Court of General Sessions. With her husband and mother by her side, she pleaded not guilty. The trial was held on the same day before Judge O’Neall and a twelve-man jury.
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 ...
26 de nov. de 2020 · Abolitionists in Britain were scandalised: if courts treated mass murder in the slave trade as just another business transaction and not a moral wrong, the souls of the nation would be damned.
