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2 days ago · The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage.
22 hours ago · Summary. The Industrial Revolution in England has remained the most debated subject in economic history. The debate has moved in a circle—the growth of trade (the “commercial revolution”), especially overseas trade, occupied the center stage of explanations from the nineteenth century to World War II; the pendulum shifted to inward-looking explanations between 1950 and the mid-1980s; the ...
3 days ago · Family. Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822 [1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. [2] [3] After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, [4] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known ...
4 days ago · On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'. Throughout the 19th century, the anti-slave trade movement was in full swing in Europe.
3 days ago · With this tight control there were few successful slave revolts. Slave plots were invariably betrayed. The revolt led by Cato in Stono, South Carolina, in 1739 took the lives of 30 whites. A slave revolt in New York City in 1741 caused heavy property damage.
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1 day ago · Isobel was really glad to be able to use the museum and her access to it to write an object biography of one of the most poignant artefacts in the collection: manillas, a form of commodity money in the form of bracelet used across West Africa and associated with the slave trade, which washed up in a shipwreck off the Island. Peter DeWint (1784 ...
4 days ago · Then in 1850, US Congress passed a law called the Fugitive Slave Act. Part of a compromise between the free states in the north and the slave states in the south, it compelled all Americans on ...
