26 Facts About Slave trade

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The transatlantic slave trade was eventually curtailed due to European and American governments passing legislation abolishing their nation's involvement in it.

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In 1807 Britain made the slave trade within its empire illegal with the Slave Trade Act 1807, and worked to extend the prohibition to other territory, as did the United States in 1808.

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The trade of enslaved people represented the major source of revenue for the state of Bornu as late as 1898.

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4.

European involvement in the East African trade of enslaved people began when Portugal established Estado da India in the early 16th century.

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Middle Passage, the crossing of the Atlantic to the Americas, endured by enslaved people laid out in rows in the holds of ships, was only one element of the well-known triangular trade engaged in by Portuguese, American, Dutch, Danish-Norwegians, French, British and others.

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Atlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century when the largest number of people were captured and enslaved on raiding expeditions into the interior of West Africa.

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African states played a key role in the trade of enslaved people, and slavery was a common practice among Sub Saharan Africans even before the involvement of the Arabs, Berbers and Europeans.

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However, as the Atlantic trade of enslaved people increased its demand, local systems which primarily serviced indentured servitude expanded.

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Benin grew increasingly rich during the 16th and 17th centuries on the trade of enslaved people with Europe; enslaved people from enemy states of the interior were sold, and carried to the Americas in Dutch and Portuguese ships.

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Slave trade's had a vested interest in what happened on slave ships.

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11.

Slave trade'storians are undecided if the legal practice of slavery began in the colony because at least some of them had the status of indentured servant.

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12.

Slave trade stated that the average price for a young woman was 300 rupees, and the average price for a small child 25 rupees.

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13.

The slave trade was one of the pillars of Norse commerce during the 9th through 11th centuries.

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14.

The Dutch Slave trade Coast referred to the trading posts of the Dutch West India Company on the Slave trade Coast, which lie in contemporary Ghana, Benin, Togo and Nigeria.

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15.

Dutch involvement on the Slave trade Coast increased with the establishment of a trading post in Offra in 1660.

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16.

Britain had by this time banned the slave trade and was seeking to induce other countries to do likewise.

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17.

Slave trade imposed peace between Algiers and the kingdoms of Sardinia and Sicily.

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18.

Slave trade was not as some have claimed, the first white person to have been lawfully executed for the murder of a slave.

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19.

Significance of the abolition of the British slave trade lay in the number of people hitherto sold and carried by British slave vessels.

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20.

Slave trade therefore re-established slavery in Haiti and Guadeloupe, where it had been abolished after rebellions.

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21.

Slave trade's decision was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 20 November 1815 and by order of Louis XVIII on 8 January 1817.

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22.

Slave trade wrote the decree of 27 April 1848 in which the French government announced that slavery was abolished in all of its colonies.

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23.

Slave trade stated the institution destroyed the will of the slave, creating an "emasculated, docile Sambo" who identified totally with the owner.

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24.

Slave trade'storians writing during this era include John Blassingame, Eugene Genovese, Leslie Howard Owens, and Herbert Gutman .

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25.

The 1807 prohibition of the international Slave trade, Williams argued, prevented French expansion on other islands.

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26.

Richardson further challenges claims that the slave trade caused widespread depopulation and economic distress in Africa—indeed that it caused the "underdevelopment" of Africa.

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