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4 days ago · 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
4 days ago · In 1850 Brazil yielded to the pressure, enacted legislation outlawing the slave trade, and began to enforce it rigorously. It is estimated that, between 1807 and 1860, the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron alone seized about 1,600 slave- ships and liberated 150,000 African slaves. In the process, more than 2,000 sailors lost their lives.
4 days ago · It is estimated that, between 1807 and 1860, the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron alone seized about 1,600 slave-ships and liberated 150,000 African slaves. In the process, more than 2,000 ...
4 days ago · Welcome to African Folktales Episode 1 - The Legacy of the Slave Trade. In this series, we journey through the rich tapestry of African folklore, beginning w...
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1 day ago · The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
2 days ago · An exception here is AshcraftEason’s intriguing article on Fenda Lawrence, an Atlantic Creole and female slave trader from Senegambia who travelled as a free black woman on a slave ship to Savannah, Georgia in 1772 where she settled, possibly to protect her rights and estate after the death or departure of her English husband (pp. 209–10).
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1 day ago · Slavery has historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in much of the rest of the ancient world. [1] When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century) began ...
