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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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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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Science's debt to the slave trade
Science, 2019Historians confront the tainted origins of key plant and animal collections.
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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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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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Poetry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
2014In the early nineteenth century, after a long struggle led by William Wilberforce, Parliament officially abolished the slave trade. This drastic change in the British Empire's practices, which was at the time the global leader economically, socially, and militarily, impacted the entire world.
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The Slave Trade and Development
Diogenes, 1997When Captain Binger traveled the Niger bend between 1887 and 1889, he saw numerous villages that had been drained of their lifeblood or left in ruins by violent conflicts that had left their mark in the form of fortifications. Above all he was struck by the region's depopulation, which threatened to compromise the potential for colonial exploitation of
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2010
No issue of public morality, in the decades before the Great War, attracted greater international attention than trafficking in women and girls for prostitution. The French term for the problem, traite des blanches, emphasised the whiteness of the victims; the German term, der Madchenhandel, called attention to their youthfulness.
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No issue of public morality, in the decades before the Great War, attracted greater international attention than trafficking in women and girls for prostitution. The French term for the problem, traite des blanches, emphasised the whiteness of the victims; the German term, der Madchenhandel, called attention to their youthfulness.
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870.
The Journal of American History, 1998Joseph C. Miller, Hugh Thomas
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