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The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving, University of Virginia: a searchable database of 25,000 scholarly works on slavery and the slave trade in all western European languages. Slavery and Slaving in World History: A Bibliography, 1900–91 by Joseph C. Miller: pdf version that includes Volume I of the original work plus the years 1992 ...
Slave trade in Africa has also caused disruption of political systems. To elaborate on the disruption of political systems caused by slavery in Africa, the capture and sale of millions of Africans to the Americas and elsewhere resulted in the loss of many skilled and talented individuals who played important roles in African societies. [175]
Scipio Vaughan (c. 1784 – c. 1840), was captured from his homeland in Africa at a young age and sold into slavery in the United States. He became a skilled artisan in Camden, South Carolina ; gained his freedom and inspired a movement among some of his descendants.
She was brought to the Cape on the VOC ship Prins Willem by the Freeburgher Pieter Kemp, who after his arrival at the Cape, sold her to Jan Van Riebeeck, making her one of the first slaves brought to South Africa. When Van Riebeeck left the Cape in 1662, Angela was sold to another burgher, Abraham Gabbema, who finally freed Angela (and her ...
The great majority were shipped to the Americas, but some also went to Europe and Southern Africa. [citation needed] Arab slave traders and their captives along the Ruvuma river (in today's Tanzania and Mozambique), 19th-century drawing by David Livingstone. While talking about the trade of slaves in East Africa in his journals, David ...
The source of slaves was primarily in sub-saharan Africa, but also included other parts of Africa and the Middle East, Indian Ocean islands, as well as south Asia. While the slave trade in the Indian Ocean started 4,000 years ago, it expanded significantly in late antiquity (1st century CE) with the rise of Byzantine and Sassanid trading ...
The Ancient Garamantian caravan trade route between the coast of Tripolitania across the Sahara to Lake Chad transported foremost circus animals, gold, cabochon and raw material for food processing and perfume manufacture, but also slaves; the African slave trade was however likely limited prior to the Islamic period, and African slaves ...
The Chukri system is a debt bondage or forced labour system found in Kidderpore and other parts of West Bengal. Under this system, a woman can be coerced into prostitution in order to pay off debts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She generally works without pay for one year or longer in order to repay a supposed debt to the brothel owner for food, clothes, make ...