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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those enslaved that were transported to ...
The Atlantic slave trade started with the Portuguese bringing the first captives from Africa to Brazil in 1526 and continued into the 19th centuries, with estimates putting the number shipped across ...
In my Jan. 29 newsletter, I wrote a little about the development of the domestic slave trade in the United States, apropos of my Sunday Review story on the SlaveVoyages database and the effort to ...
Even before the publication in 1969 of Philip Curtin’s seminal book, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, historians and others have been engaged in debates and analyses of the effects of the ...
Estimates vary widely, but somewhere between 10 million and 28 million Africans are believed to have been shipped across the Atlantic between the 15th and 19th centuries. Many died on the way ...
A researcher has discovered the identity of the last-known survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Redoshi, later given the slave name Sally Smith, was kidnapped at the ...
Prime Day Sales Secret Prime Day deals so good we almost kept them from you Business Lloyd’s of London apologizes for role in Atlantic slave trade By Noah Manskar Published June 18, 2020, 11:21 ...
The Atlantic slave trade during its heyday and the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to ...
It had nothing to do with the Atlantic slave trade, but with colonial rule. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi agreed to reparations with President Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
Author Richard Reddie writes about the Atlantic slave trade, how the Bible was used by Christians on both sides of the issue and the abolitionists who sought to bring it to an end.