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Undated - Adam Baldridge flees Madagascar to avoid attack by neighbors for engaging in the slave trade.
British traders became the dominant European presence in the region by the mid-19th century, and the Crown used them to enforce abolition of the slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea.
The existence of a vast African diaspora is a legacy of the practice of transporting millions of African slaves out of the continent by these external colonisers.
Their stated desire of retrieving all Africans captured and sold by the slave trade has brought them to Brazil, where the Crown Prince of Portugal, João, has sought refuge.
On the death of the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, Edward inherited the Lascelles family fortune made in the West Indies through customs positions and slave trade.
A further charge that Petherick had countenanced and even taken part in the slave trade was subsequently shown to have no foundation (Petherick in fact had endeavoured to stop the traffic), but it led Earl Russell, then secretary for foreign affairs, to abolish the British consulate at Khartoum in 1864.
Boddington was involved in the slave trade and active as part of the West India lobby, but also participated in other committees: The Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, and the Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.
Historically Wadesmill is particularly notable for two features - it is the location of the first turnpike in England (and therefore the world), and the presence of the Clarkson Memorial halfway up nearby High Cross hill, a memorial to Thomas Clarkson's rest point in his travels at which he decided to devote much of the rest of his life to ending the slave trade.
The community was named for the English statesman William Wilberforce, who worked for abolition of slavery and achieved the end of the slave trade in the United Kingdom and its empire.
960: Doge of Venice Pietro IV Candiano reconvened the popular assembly and had it approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade is an historical novel by Manu Herbstein.
While there was an early link in the 18th century between Black Britons, mainly former slaves, and the abolitionist conservatives who successfully sought the end of the slave trade in 1807 many Black Britons have not traditionally supported conservative policies.
It was designed by Gothic architect Samuel Sanders Teulon (1812–1873) in 1865 coincidentally with the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which effectively ended the western slave-trade.
In 2002 he apologized on behalf of Africans for the part Africans played in the slave trade, and the apology was accepted by bishop John Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee.
They founded Freetown in Sierra Leone, the first major British colony in Africa, whose purpose in Thomas Clarkson's words was "the abolition of the slave trade, the civilisation of Africa, and the introduction of the gospel there".
On three of the four sides are carved bas-reliefs, representing William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, both prominent figures in the campaign against the slave trade, and a manacled slave in a beseeching attitude.
John Hawkins is often considered to be the pioneer of the British slave trade, because he was the first to run the Triangular trade, making a profit at every stop.
In January 2006, Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade.
Issued on December 3, 1839 as a result of a broad consultation among the College of Cardinals, the bull resoundingly denounces both the slave trade and the continuance of the institution of slavery.
When Agaja took three European employees of the company as hostage after an attack on Jakin on April 2, 1732, Elet was sent to the Agaja to negotiate their release and the resumption of the slave trade.
Drescher, Seymour, (EAJH) "Jews and the Slave trade", in Encyclopedia of American Jewish history, Volume 1, Stephen Harlan (Ed.), 1994, page 414-416.
1993 - Seymour Drescher, "The Role of Jews in the Atlantic Slave Trade", Immigrants and Minorities, 12 (1993), pp 113–25
Drescher, Seymour, (JANCAST) "Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade" in The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1400-1800, Paolo Bernardini (Ed.), 2004, p 439-484.
Drescher, Seymour, "The Role of Jews in the Transatlantic Slave Trade", in Strangers & neighbors: relations between Blacks & Jews in the United States, Maurianne Adams (Ed.), Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1999, pp 105–115.
In his poem Godine 1848 (Year 1848) it is the betrayal of the ideals of the American Revolution—legal slavery in the land of the free; in Izobraženiku (To an Enlightened One) it is the hypocrisy of those who condemn the Ottoman Empire as barbaric, while at the same time engaging in conquest and the slave trade themselves.
When the British passed an act to abolish the slave trade in 1807, the port turned to export of palm oil products, ivory and Guinea pepper.
Historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall discovered extensive French and Spanish documentation of the early slave trade, which provided more information than in most records as to the ethnicity and names of slaves, all in the courthouse at New Roads.
The Quakers of New York petitioned the First Congress (under the Constitution) for the abolition of the slave trade.
The Kingdom of Dahomey, along the coast in present-day Benin, took over the kingdoms of Allada and Whydah in the 1720s and established control over part of the Atlantic coast and became one of the main participants in the slave trade.
Peça – unit of value in the slave trade in West Africa through the Cape Verde Islands during the 16th to 18th centuries
He is famous for his sea sorties on Crimea and Turkey and in 1616 captured Caffa (Theodosia) on the Crimean peninsula, the largest center of the slave trade.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, historian, did extensive research over years in the courthouse, discovering important documentation of the slave trade that provided new understanding of African-American history in Louisiana, including the ethnic origin of many slaves in specific African cultures
In the 19th century they gathered rubber, and participated in the slave trade, sending both their own and acquisitions from further inland to Loango and Fernan Vaz.
In 1691, at the age of about nineteen, she was captured by Crimean Tatars during one of their frequent raids into this region and taken as a slave, probably first to the Crimean city of Kaffa, a major centre of the slave trade, then to Istanbul, and was selected for the Sultan’s harem.
In April 2007, Montreux appeared in Pegasus Opera Company's production of Delius' Koanga at Sadler's Wells Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.
As described in the online article “Focus on the Slave Trade”, African Americans have not always had the same rights as other ethnicites throughout the United States, because in the beginning around the 17th century the ancestors of African Americans were traded in an agreement called the Atlantic slave trade ( “Focus on the Slave Trade”).
For example, James writes skeptically of British efforts to suppress the slave trade by using William Wilberforce as a figurehead.
The West Calder Slave Trade Petition was a 1792 petition, against the slave-trade, created in West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland.
It was named after William Wilberforce (1759–1833) who was a British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.