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On the Causes of the African Slave Trade [PDF]

open access: yesKyklos, 2013
SummaryThis paper offers an integrated analysis of the forces shaping the emergence of the African slave trade over the early modern period. We focus our attention on two questions. First, why most of the increase in the demand for slaves during this period came exclusively from western Europeans.
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(Re)financing the Slave Trade with the Royal African Company in the Boom Markets of 1720 [PDF]

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In 1720, subscription finance and its attendant financial policies were highly successful for the Royal African Company. The values of subscription shares are easily understandable using standard elements of derivative security pricing theory ...
Gary S. Shea
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source

A Horde of Foreign Freebooters: The U.S. and the Suppression of the Slave Trade

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2013
Between 1808 and 1820, the U.S. Congress enacted increasingly punitive laws against slave trading. This paper argues that these acts were used to protect U.S.
Sarah Batterson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire. Her research analyzes the role of the United States in the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade and the obstacles preventing the effective prohibition of the trade.
doaj  

Norway’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade: a discourse analysis of media coverage and implications for education

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences
This study explored the Norwegian media’s coverage (2015-2022) of the discovery of the wreck of a slave ship in 1974 and how this coverage related to contemporary antiracist issues such as Black Lives Matter, the Rhodes Must Fall movement, and the murder
Paul Thomas, Jocelyne Von Hof
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient viral genomes reveal introduction of human pathogenic viruses into Mexico during the transatlantic slave trade. [PDF]

open access: yesElife, 2021
Guzmán-Solís AA   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Black resistance to the transatlantic slave trade

open access: yes, 2007
This two and a half hour ITE session focuses on Black Resistance to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and is suitable for student teachers/trainees preparing to teach History or Citizenship at KS3-4.
Smart, Dean
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