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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, European and American slave merchants purchased enslaved Africans who were transported to the Americas and forced into slavery in the American colonies...
- 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished...
- Rebellions
Nat Turner's Rebellion. One of the most famous slave revolts...
- Nat Turner
Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American...
- Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of farming in which families, both...
- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a...
- Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and...
- Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott case, or Dred Scott v. Sanford, the...
- Jamestown
The Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English...
- 13th Amendment
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, ... New World slaves were considered the property of their owners, and slaves convicted of revolt or murder were executed. Slave market regions and participation Major slave trading regions of Africa, ...
The slave trade was one of the pillars of Norse commerce during the 9th through 11th centuries. The 10th-century Persian traveller Ibn Rustah described how Swedish Vikings, the Varangians or Rus, ... In 1811, Arthur William Hodge was executed for the murder of a slave in the British West Indies. He was not, however, as some ...
The author also argues that, on slave ships and on plantations, the rape of enslaved women was a performance of white masculinity. Here, Feinstein makes an interesting point about the social aspect of sexual violence for white men, analysing an example of group sexual assault.
Marché Désclaves. Between 1517 and 1867, 12.5 million enslaved Africans were forced onto ships to begin the Middle Passage to America. About 10.7 million men, women, and children survived the journey. Of these, about 40 percent, mostly from Angola, landed in Brazil, where the trade continued until 1850.
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.
Abolitionism, movement between about 1783 and 1888 that was chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. Between the 16th and 19th centuries an estimated total of 12 million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
