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- 6. Abolition Oct 19, 2020
- Exploring the politics that brought the enslavement of Africans in the West to an end.
- 5. Resistance Oct 12, 2020
- DWP divers hope to identify a preserved wreck of a ship that ferried enslaved Africans to freedom.
- 4. New World Cultures Oct 5, 2020
- Samuel L. Jackson visits Africatown, Alabama, the only African town established in America.
Oct 2, 2021 · Laura T. Murphy. By Adeel Hassan. Oct. 2, 2021. Nearly 40 million of people around the world are enslaved today, and the largest number live in India. There, in the northern state of Uttar...
Aug 19, 2019 · The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited. Enslaved people were seen not as people...
Dec 11, 2020 · Who Were America’s Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers. The public website draws connections between existing datasets to piece together fragmentary narratives. Meilan...
Apr 12, 2024 · Slavery is the condition in which one human being is owned by another. Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, legality, and sociology of slavery in this article.
Williams, a specialist in the African diaspora of Brazil, is one of the principal investigators of a massive new online database called “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade,” which will...
(more) See all videos for this article. By the 1480s Portuguese ships were already transporting Africans for use as enslaved labourers on the sugar plantations in the Cape Verde and Madeira islands in the eastern Atlantic.
Dec 9, 2020 · The initiative, called Enslaved.org, is documenting the lives, the names and experiences of both enslaved people and the perpetrators of the slave trade. Daryle Williams teaches history at the ...
