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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"slave trade"”.
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Evolutionary Genomics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is a remarkable large-scale migration in the human history. On several occasions between the 16th and 19th century, millions of African men, women, and children were purchased from African traders and some abducted for slavery by the Europeans, for forced labour in …
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Transnational Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Today: Modes of Remembering in Three Lusophone Nations
… century up until the 19th century, millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly taken from their homes to the Americas and, to a lesser extent, to Europe. The remnant effects of slavery have persisted in these societies and remain evident today. This paper examines the transnational Memory of the …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
… to examine the material constitution of European slave traders' social life in the last years of existence of the Spanish colonial city of Panama, burnt down to the ashes following a piratic attack in 1671. It is based on the well-established and widely recognized premise that African captives …
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The Cape Squadron, Admiral Baldwin Walker and the suppression of the slave trade (1861-4)
… a study of the Royal Navy's campaign against the slave trade from their base at the Cape of Good Hope from 1861-4. During this period the Cape Squadron (which included the West African Station at this point) was under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker. Under his command the first …
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"An ill-judged piece of business": The failure of slave trade suppression in a slaveholding republic
… examines the U.S. suppression of the slave trade from the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 to the onset of the Civil War in 1861. Instead of studying the slave trade in isolation, this dissertation evaluates U.S. slave trade policy within the context of the development of …
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The Royal Navy and the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade c.1807-1867 : anti-slavery, empire and identity
… Navy’s efforts to suppress the transatlantic slave trade between 1807 and the mid-1860s. The role of the West Africa squadron in detaining slave ships embarking from the West African coast was instrumental in the transformation of Britain’s profile from a prolific slave trading nation to the …
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The Libyan slave trade: a study on the responsibility of the Libyan government and relevant regional and international bodies based on international standards
… facing en route to Europe, one of these being slavery. Libya is the main transit route for migrants on their way to Europe and as a result, Libya has been facing a large influx of migrants. These migrants travel to Libya with the aim of being smuggled across the sea in the hopes of penetrating …
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The admission of slaves and 'prize slaves' into the Cape Colony, 1797-1818
This study supports the thesis that slaves were admitted into the Cape colony by the Cape colonial government, even though the government was opposed to slave importation in principle and law (Slave Trade Act, 1807) from 1797-1818. The colonial demand for slaves was at its height after the …
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The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity
… explores the Royal Navy’s suppression of the slave trade in the western Indian Ocean between 1858 and the mid 1890s. Previous studies of this activity have offered narrative-style histories which have focused on operational matters and the diplomatic background. As such, scholars have written …
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Architecture of oppression : slave fortresses and their relevance to contemporary American urban prison architecture
… and race would be complete without a look at the slave fortresses of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The importation of African slaves to the Americas was the economic catalyst that subsequently catapulted America in a world superpower, and questionably into imperial leadership. Speckled along the …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
This thesis explores how anti-slave-trade laws shaped the opportunities and limitations for enslaved people during the most intensive phase of abolition (c. 1839-1856) against the Brazilian slave trade, the largest in the Atlantic world. It focuses on case studies from Sierra Leone, South Africa, …
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The Nitrate That Shaped the World: A Global History of Indian Saltpetre (1700-1850)
… demand for gunpowder, a key commodity in global trade including the African and American trades, surged after the 1700s. Concomitantly, the increase also boosted the demand for saltpetre. This project argues that following this great global demand for saltpetre, Indian saltpetre entered the …
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Trade and the merchant community of the Loango Coast in the eighteenth century
… Loango Coast during the era of the transatlantic slave trade from the point of contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century, with particular focus on the eighteenth century. While a number of previous studies of the West Central African slave trade have …
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On the Tails of the Trade: Enslaved Women, Slave Traders, and the Households they Shared
Throughout the antebellum period, enslaved women engaged in intimate relationships with white men, some of whom were actually slave traders, upholding the institution that kept them in bondage. While each individual’s experience varied, the origins and subsequent circumstances of these women …
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Essays on historical development in Africa
… such as human migration, civil conflict and the slave trade. Specifically, I try to answer the following three questions by taking a historical perspective at the ethnicity level in Africa: (1) the impact of genetic diversity on interpersonal trust, (2) the impact of civil conflict on ethnic …
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"""20. and odd Negroes"": Virginia and the international system of slavery, 1619-1660"
… early development and the transatlantic slave trade. This study locates Virginia as a colonizer and an enslaver in the context of the developing international system of slavery and the major upheavals that transformed both West Central Africa and the New World in the early seventeenth …
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The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture
… from West Africa to the U.S. South by way of the slave trade. The original scholarship comes from in the Mississippi Delta, although this thesis also uses quilt books from around the south in order to show widespread regional similarities. Prior scholarship on the Islamic influence in the U.S. …
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From ‘sacred and undeniable’ to ‘self-evident’: a rhetorical analysis of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
… argument for independence around the theme of enslavement. In order to uncover Jefferson’s possible reasons for doing so, the original draft of the Declaration is examined using a combination of three methods of rhetorical criticism: analysis of the rhetorical situation, close textual analysis, …
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Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
… potent sites of memory for the trans-Atlantic slave trade and serve as icons of a naturalized gateway to Africa for diaspora Africans. These castles are the backdrop for PANAFEST and Emancipation Day, two Pan-African oriented festivals observed in Ghana since the 1990s which attract large …
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