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1971
For a decade and a half prior to the Congress of Verona, the suppression of the slave trade had been an important and vexing subject of international debate. As early as March 2, 1807, the United States had forbidden her citizens to import slaves after January 1, 1808.2 Only three weeks later (March 25, 1807) Britain followed suit.
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For a decade and a half prior to the Congress of Verona, the suppression of the slave trade had been an important and vexing subject of international debate. As early as March 2, 1807, the United States had forbidden her citizens to import slaves after January 1, 1808.2 Only three weeks later (March 25, 1807) Britain followed suit.
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The Mariner's Mirror, 2019
This slim, beautifully illustrated volume is published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, where the author worked for many...
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This slim, beautifully illustrated volume is published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, where the author worked for many...
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Borgu in the Atlantic Slave Trade
African Economic History, 1999slaves for internal West African (and ultimately trans-Saharan) markets. This involvement in the slave trade had diverse aspects, in which Borgu might figure as both a victim and a beneficiary of the trade. First, inhabitants of Borgu were among those enslaved and sold.
Paul E. Lovejoy, Robin Law
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2012
This article reviews scholarship on internal slave trades in the Americas. Intra-regional slave trades in the Americas have often left few records and have been little noticed by historians. In many cases, historians have probably ignored significant inter-regional trades that pre-dated the era of abolition.
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This article reviews scholarship on internal slave trades in the Americas. Intra-regional slave trades in the Americas have often left few records and have been little noticed by historians. In many cases, historians have probably ignored significant inter-regional trades that pre-dated the era of abolition.
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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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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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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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