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For the last sixteen years of the transatlantic slave trade, Spain was the only transatlantic slave-trading empire. [158] Following the British Slave Trade Act 1807 and U.S. bans on the African slave trade that same year, it declined, but the period thereafter still accounted for 28.5% of the total volume of the Atlantic slave trade.
The day honours and remembers those who suffered and died as a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade, which has been called "the worst violation of human rights in history", [1] in which over 400 years more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims. [2]
Newspaper editorials in response to the capture of the Wanderer [3]. The movement was widespread and growing throughout the decade. The 1808 law was "denounced in vehement terms" throughout the South, and called the "fruit of 'a diseased sentimentality' [and a] 'canting philanthropy.'" [4] For example, in 1854 a Williamsburg County, South Carolina grand jury reported, "As our unanimous opinion ...
Earlier this year, Portugal's President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said his country was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, and suggested there was a ...
The date is significant because, during the night of 22 August to 23 August 1791, on the island of Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti), an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
The slave trade played a role in the history of the Atlantic World almost from the beginning. [20] As European powers began to conquer and claim large territories in the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, the role of chattel slavery and other forced labor systems in the development of the Atlantic World expanded.
The society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the slave trade and achieved the abolition of the international slave trade when the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807, at which time the society ceased its activities. (The United States also prohibited the African slave trade the same year, to take effect in 1808.)
The Atlantic slave trade involved the forced migration of millions of Africans to the New World, often with the complicity of African leaders and societies. Europeans collaborated with African leaders and merchants to capture and transport millions of Africans to slave plantations in the Americas. Various African societies benefited ...