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John the Conqueror, also known as High John de Conqueror, John, Jack, and many other folk variants, is a deity from the African-American spiritual system called hoodoo. He is associated with the roots of Ipomoea purga , the John the Conqueror root or John the Conqueroo , to which magical powers are ascribed in African-American folklore ...
Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John were two 18th century African slave traders, later enslaved people, and finally, free men who were members of the ruling family of Old Town, Calabur, Nigeria. [1] Ancona was either a son or nephew of Little Ephraim.
In areas of Africa where slavery was not prevalent, European slave traders worked and negotiated with African rulers on their terms for trade, and African rulers refused to supply European demands. Africans and Europeans profited from the slave trade; however, African populations, the social, political, and military changes to African societies ...
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. [176]
When confronted with the harsh reality of slavery, African-American folktales served as a method to cope with the situation and document their history of slavery in America. [23] An example of a work that conveys the African-American slave experience in America is ‘‘The Conjure Woman’’.
In a single stroke, it changed the legal status, as recognized by the U.S. government, of 3 million slaves in designated areas of the Confederacy from "slave" to "free." It had the practical effect that as soon as a slave escaped the control of the Confederate government, by running away or through advances of the Union Army, the slave became ...
The West African states also imported highly trained slave soldiers. [55] Under the Saadi dynasty, Morocco's sugar industry was dependent on black African slave labor. [56] According to Paul Berthier, the need for slave labor on Moroccan sugar plantations was a major reason for the 16th century Saadian invasion of the Songhai Empire. [56]
The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the same time to avoid superficiality on the one hand, and unscientific narrowness of view on the other.