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Hace 4 días · Transatlantic slave trade, part of the global slave trade that took 10–12 million enslaved Africans to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. In the ‘triangular trade,’ arms and textiles went from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and sugar and coffee from the Americas to Europe.
- The Middle Passage
In an infamous incident on the slave ship Zong in 1781, when...
- Triangular Trade
Triangular trade, three-legged economic model and trade...
- Atlantic Slave Trade
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and...
- Climate
Sénégal River, river of western Africa, with a length of...
- Thomas Lewis
Contributor to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of African...
- The Middle Passage
Hace 4 días · In an infamous incident on the slave ship Zong in 1781, when both Africans and crew members were dying of an infectious disease, Capt. Luke Collingwood, hoping to stop the disease, ordered that more than 130 Africans be thrown overboard. He then filed an insurance claim on the value of the murdered enslaved persons.
Hace 4 días · Not all the slaves were taken from western Africa as defined in this article. Considerable numbers were always taken from Africa south of the equator, and in the 19th century the measures taken to stop the North Atlantic slave trade were quicker and more effective than those against the trade across the South Atlantic.
Hace 2 días · These actions have at times been dismissed because they were small actions, but historian Adriana Chira argues that while “These freedoms were patchwork, often incomplete when measured against liberal - abolitionist yardsticks, precarious and even reversible” the action “ . . . were very concrete, and in the long term, they served to corrode the legal structures of plantation slavery ...
Hace 2 días · Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. [1] . Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage.
Hace 5 días · The journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, from Africa to North America or South America or the Caribbean, was called by many the Middle Passage. It was the most harrowing part of the transition for captured Africans from freedom to slavery.
Hace 4 días · Maafa (mah-AH-fah) is a Swahili word meaning “great disaster” or “great tragedy.” Since the late 1980s it has been used to refer to the transatlantic slave trade of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, during which an estimated 12.5 million African men, women, and children were kidnapped from their homes and forcibly brought to the Americas to work plantations without pay (by ...
