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  1. Dec 1, 2022 · Blog • 01 December 2022. The Ecology of Bondage: Writing the History of Water and Slavery. A significant amount of historiographic attention has been devoted to the ways in which European imperialism and colonialism fundamentally and irrevocably transformed the global environment. The suite of ideas and practices which typified colonial ...

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  2. Feb 7, 2023 · Huntington sources illustrate these benefits in print and images. Swimming allowed the enslaved to find cathartic pleasure in their exploited bodies. In the evening, women and men slipped into the water to cool off, relax, and wash away the filth of plantation slavery. By the waterside, fathers and sons made canoes that male and female family ...

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  3. was used in the Americas to produce goods such as tobacco, cotton, sugar and indigo dye. The exploitation of enslaved people made many Europeans, including the British, extremely wealthy. It is ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. As White famously concluded: “Black in a white society, slave in a free society, women in a society ruled by men, female slaves had the least formal power and were perhaps the most vulnerable group of Antebellum Americans.” 65 Yet publishers and academic peers did not immediately take seriously work focused on women slaves. White noted, for example, how colleagues in her department warned ...

  6. After 1807: the Royal Navy and suppression of the slave trade. 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 ...

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  8. Between 1501 and 1867, nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped, forced onto European and American ships, and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved, abused, and forever separated from their homes, families, ancestors, and cultures. The Transatlantic Slave Trade represents one of the most violent, traumatizing, and horrific ...

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