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Vor 2 Tagen · Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, “Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade,” in The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, ed. Philip Misevich and Kristin Mann (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016), 152–167. 3.
Vor 18 Stunden · In my field, history, useful starting points for understanding include: John Thornton’s Africa and Africans in the Making of the Modern World, which explored the complexities of the slave trade, including African involvement and resistance, the formation of Atlantic creole cultures in Africa and the New World, and the maintenance and adaptation of African cultural practices in the Americas.
Vor einem Tag · Western Africa - Abolition, Slavery, Emancipation: These three themes are closely interwoven in the course of events in Africa. It should be noted, however, that the major decisions regarding the abolition of the slave trade were taken outside Africa and were responses to economic and political changes and pressures in Europe and America. Many of the Christian churches had never accepted the ...
Vor 18 Stunden · The Atlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century when the largest number of people were captured and enslaved on raiding expeditions into the interior of West Africa.
Vor 5 Tagen · Others place the blame on a trans-Atlantic economic system that simultaneously enriched Southern white planters and Northern merchants on the profits of the slave trade and slave labor.
Vor einem Tag · Three-quarters of a century of turmoil following the British decision to campaign against the Atlantic slave trade and to foster the interests of legitimate trade and Christian civilization in western Africa had therefore resulted in the establishment of the new colony of Sierra Leone and direct British intervention in African ...
Vor 3 Tagen · All U.S. states abolished the transatlantic slave trade by 1798. South Carolina, which had abolished the slave trade in 1787, reversed that decision in 1803.
