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Aug 26, 2024 · The transatlantic slave trade involved the purchase by Europeans of enslaved men, women, and children from Africa and their transportation to the Americas, where they were sold for profit. Between 1517 and 1867, about 12.5 million Africans began the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, enduring cruel treatment, disease, and paralyzing fear ...
- Africa and Enslavement
- The Middle Passage
- Visions of The Caribbean: Plantation Conditions
- Visions of The Caribbean: Resistance
- How Did The Slave Trade Develop in Britain?
- Abolitionism in Britain
- Mobilizing Public Support
- The Continuation of Slavery
- After 1807: The Royal Navy and Suppression of The Slave Trade
Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders. Slavery existed in Africa before Europeans arrived. However, their demand for slave labour was so great that trade...
The ‘Middle Passage’ was the harrowing voyage experienced by the millions of African captives transported across the Atlantic in European ships, to work as slaves in the Americas. Conditions on board slave ships were appalling: huge numbers of people were crammed into very small spaces. Men, women and children were separated, families being torn ap...
By the 16th century, Europeans had started to develop and cultivate regions in the Caribbean, North and South America. As demand for labour grew, Europeans turned to West Africa to supply an enslaved workforce. These people were defined in law as ‘chattels’ – the personal property of their ‘owners’ – and were denied the right to live and move as th...
Enslaved people fought to retain their families, cultures, customs and dignity. Resistance took many forms: from keeping aspects of their identity and traditions alive to escaping and plotting uprisings. On the plantations they broke tools, damaged crops and feigned injury or illness in order to frustrate plantation owners and their ambitions for g...
Elizabeth I believed that capturing Africans against their will 'would be detestable and call down the vengeance of Heaven upon the undertakers', yet after seeing the huge profits available she lent Royal Ships to two slaving expeditions of John Hawkins – the first English trader of enslaved people from West Africa to the Americas. No English settl...
Abolitionism was one of Britain’s first lobbying movements. The first meeting of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade took place in London in May 1787. African writers and activists such as Olaudah Equiano spoke out against the trade and its inhumane treatment of Africans. High-profile figures such as William Wilberforce MP, a...
Abolitionists succeeded in mobilizing unprecedented public support. Through a campaign of information they demonstrated what lay behind the sugar, tobacco and coffee enjoyed by Britons. People signed petitions, attended lectures and abstained from eating West Indian sugar. Many people who signed petitions could not vote and this was their only mean...
Although the British Parliament outlawed slavery in 1807, a quarter of all Africans who were enslaved were transported across the Atlantic after this date. In British colonies, the institution of slavery carried on as before, until Parliament passed an Emancipation Act in 1833. This was achieved by a combination of active resistance in the Caribbea...
In 1808, the British West Africa Squadron was established to suppress illegal slave trading. Between 1820 and 1870, Royal Navy patrols seized over 1500 ships and freed 150,000 Africans destined for slavery in the Americas. Many people believed that the only way to eradicate slavery was to promote ‘legitimate’ trade and European forms of religion an...
Feb 3, 2022 · The forming of the triangle began when European ships, carrying firearms and manufactured goods, sailed to Africa, where the commodities were traded for enslaved men, women and children.
- Nicholas Boston
Enslaved young woman: We were forced into slavery, forced onto ships. My mother died on the crossing to the Americas and my father and I were separated when sold at the port. I was 14 years old.
3 days ago · transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. It was the second of three stages of the so-called triangular trade, in which arms, textiles, and wine were shipped from Europe to Africa ...
Once the enslaved men and women had been sold in the Caribbean and the Americas, the ship’s captain used the money to buy goods produced by the enslaved workers on the plantations. Sailing back across the Atlantic to Bristol, the ships’ holds were filled, not with human beings, but with barrels of sugar, rum or tobacco.
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Sep 26, 2023 · Edward Colston was a slave trader in the 1600s and a director of a group called the Royal African Company, which transported about 80,000 enslaved men, women and children from Africa to the ...
