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1 day ago · The founders knew, beyond a doubt, they must either “ Unite or Die .”. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the rest felt the guns of disunion and civil war pointing at ...
Jun 17, 2024 · transatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
3 days ago · Records Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and to Negro Colonization, 1854-72 Several laws were passed in the 19th century for the suppression of the African slave trade and for support of the colonization of recaptured and free Africans.
3 days ago · Western Africa - Slave Trade, Colonization, Resistance: All the estimates for the volume of the Atlantic slave trade that have been given so far are for numbers of slaves landed in the Americas, as such numbers are generally more readily ascertainable than figures for slaves leaving Africa.
Jun 23, 2024 · Even before 1776, some Americans denounced slaveholding, and African American slaves in Massachusetts petitioned the legislature to abolish slavery. The coming of war dramatically escalated the movement against slavery by involving the slaves themselves.
4 days ago · It documents the journeys of “liberated Africans,” revealing the backgrounds of the millions of Africans captured and sold into slavery during the suppression of transatlantic slave trading in the 19th century.
Jun 10, 2024 · Slave traders continued throughout the 19th century to refine their methods for ever greater profits by sacrificing the health and lives of the millions of Africans who were brought to the Americas". - From "Middle Passage" in the Encyclopedia of Black Studies.
