On page 121 Equiano is earning his way back to London from Montserrat and first of all is delighted to bid "…adieu to the sound of the cruel whip and all the other dreadful instruments of torture" and to say farewell to "the offensive sight of the violated chastity of the sable females." Secondly he was thrilled to be paid upon arrival in London: "I never had earned seven guineas so quick in my life before… thirty-seven guineas in all" (Equiano, p
As the documentary, Goree Island: The Door of No Return indicates, those who were sold into slavery would initiate their captivity by first being shipped to Goree Island and awaiting, in horrendous and gut-wrenching conditions, departure for the yet more horrendous boat ride to North America. Alkalimat notes that "while some recent studies suggest that only 9 out of every 100 died, earlier studies of the slave trade show that the number of slaves who died was as high as 33 out of every 100" (Alkalimat, p
His youngest son Ham, for seeing his father's nakedness and failing to covering him up in deference, was cursed by his father, who "awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, "Cursed be Canaan; A slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers." (Veasey, p
The work of Anne Caroline Bailey (2005) entitled: "African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame" notes that it is likely that one of the reason for the "silence on slavery on the African continent" is marked by the fifty slave forts and castles, dotting the Atlantic coast of Ghana." (Bailey, 2005) The purpose of these forts and castles is stated to have been twofold: (1) to house up to one thousand slaves in holding pens on the Atlantic coast as they awaited European and American ships to take them on the dreaded Middle Passage to the Americas; and (2) to defend European interests on the coast by keeping competitors -- internal and external at bay
Who 'Really' Controlled the Slave Trade It is reported in the work of Petre-Grenouilleau entitled: "From slave trade to empire: Europe and the colonization of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s" (2004) that West-central Africa was the location from which "45 per cent of all slaves left for the Americas between 1776 and 1850" and that this was the only region in African "where Europeans had some territorial presence during the slave-trade era and therefore some control over the routes by which slaves reached the coast." (Petre-Grenouilleau
The early plans of Prince Henry for Africans was to provide them with education and to civilize them however, when Henry died in 1460, more than "eight hundred Africans were exported to Portugal annually and sold on arrival at the Lisbon dock as slaves." (Sesay, 1986) Prince Henry did not support such actions however successive kings and princes did support this practice
It is important to realize that the slave community was black. This was the specific community targeted by the Americans as an object of hatred and inferiority (Melville-Myers)
The Europeans bought these slaves from the Africans. They then sent the slaves to North and South America (Muhommad)
They then sent the slaves to North and South America (Muhommad). Different perspectives have been presented below (Wiencek)
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th through the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those who ...
Antiquity. Ancient Rome; Babylonia; Ancient Greece; Topics and practices. Atlantic slave trade. Middle Passage; Arab slave trade. Ghilman; Mamluk; Saqaliba ...
Resistance to lifetime servitude began with the first Africans forcibly brought to the Western Hemisphere in the 1500s, and resistance continued until the last ...
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The slave trade has been, and continues to be, an economic commodity based on human life. In the twenty-first century, this practice became known as "human ...
Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return ...
In 1807, the British government passed an Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Slavery itself would persist in the British ...
The transatlantic slave trade is unique within the universal history of slavery for three main reasons: its duration - approximately four centuries
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in ...
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas ...