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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 ...
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 ...
John Kimber. John Kimber was the captain of a British slave ship who was tried for murder in 1792, after the abolitionist William Wilberforce accused him of torturing to death an enslaved teenaged girl on the deck of his ship. Kimber was acquitted, but the trial gained much attention in the press. The case established that slave ships' crew ...
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
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 ...
Murder in the Slave Trade. 1974, Drama, 1h 14m. --. Tomatometer. --. Audience Score. Want to see. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email.
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 ...
