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In 1783 Scottish native John Tailyour arrived in Jamaica, where he hoped to make his fortune after a string of failed business ventures in North America. Fifteen years later he retired as a rich man. His newfound wealth came in large part from his career
Nicholas Radburn
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In 1783 Scottish native John Tailyour arrived in Jamaica, where he hoped to make his fortune after a string of failed business ventures in North America. Fifteen years later he retired as a rich man. His newfound wealth came in large part from his career
Nicholas Radburn
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2015
The Atlantic slave trade remained one of the least studied areas in modern Western historiography until the middle of the twentieth century. This late start was not due to any lack of sources, for the materials available for its study were abundant in both printed and manuscript form from the very beginning.
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The Atlantic slave trade remained one of the least studied areas in modern Western historiography until the middle of the twentieth century. This late start was not due to any lack of sources, for the materials available for its study were abundant in both printed and manuscript form from the very beginning.
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Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
, 2015Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. By Gregory E. O'Malley. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. [xvi], 394.
S. Kelley
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade
1992The extent of the slave trade in the eighteenth century can be measured by the fact that in the hundred years to 1786 over 2 million negroes were imported into America and the British West Indian colonies alone. The number taken annually from the African continent by the ships of various European countries about the year 1790 has been estimated at 74 ...
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Angola and the Seventeenth-Century South Atlantic Slave Trade
, 2015This chapter offers a general overview of the slave trade in seventeenth-century Angola and its connections to the wider Atlantic Ocean. It begins by looking at acquisition of slaves in the interior and their transport to the coast and provides analysis ...
A. Caldeira
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, 2015
Introduction 1. Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore - Robert Burroughs 2. The politics of slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey 3. 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'?
R. Burroughs, Richard Huzzey
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Introduction 1. Suppression of the Atlantic slave trade: abolition from ship to shore - Robert Burroughs 2. The politics of slave-trade suppression - Richard Huzzey 3. 'Tis enough that we give them liberty'?
R. Burroughs, Richard Huzzey
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Copper Sheathing and the British Slave Trade
, 2015type="main"> British slave traders were early and rapid adopters of the new technique of sheathing ships' hulls with copper. From the 1780s this innovation increased sailing speeds of British slave ships by about a sixth, prolonged the ships' lives by at
Peter M. Solar, K. Rönnbäck
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Museum International, 1997
The Wisbech and Fenland Museum is one of the rare museums in the United Kingdom with a permanent collection devoted to slavery and the slave trade. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of one of the country’s leading abolitionists, a special exhibition was organized by curator David C.
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The Wisbech and Fenland Museum is one of the rare museums in the United Kingdom with a permanent collection devoted to slavery and the slave trade. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of one of the country’s leading abolitionists, a special exhibition was organized by curator David C.
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The enslaved ontology: Peoples of the historic slave trade
Journal of Web Semantics, 2020C. Shimizu +11 more
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2015
The Atlantic slave trade, which lasted from the mid-fifteenth century until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, was a distinctive event in both global history and the history of slavery. There have been, of course, other large coerced migrations in history, notably in the mid-twentieth century when millions of people in Europe and Asia were ...
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The Atlantic slave trade, which lasted from the mid-fifteenth century until the last quarter of the nineteenth century, was a distinctive event in both global history and the history of slavery. There have been, of course, other large coerced migrations in history, notably in the mid-twentieth century when millions of people in Europe and Asia were ...
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