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  2. Blockade of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The British Royal Navy commissioned the West Africa Squadron in 1807, and the United States Navy did so as well in 1842. The squadron had the duty to protect Africa from slave traders, and it effectively aided in ending the transatlantic slave trade. In addition to the West Africa Squadron, the Africa Squadron had the same duties to perform.

  3. Patrick Tracy Jackson - Wikipedia

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    Jackson established himself in Boston as a merchant specializing in the East and West Indies trade. Despite curtailed shipping interests during the War of 1812, Jackson collaborated with brother-in-law Francis Cabot Lowell (1775–1817) to establish a textile factory in Waltham, Massachusetts, and founded the Boston Manufacturing Company with him and the other "Boston Associates" in 1813.

  4. Emancipation of the British West Indies - Wikipedia

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    The emancipation of the British West Indies refers to the abolition of slavery in Britain's colonies in the West Indies during the 1830s. The British government passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, which emancipated all slaves in the British West Indies. After emancipation, a system of apprenticeship was established, where emancipated slaves ...

  5. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    Legally frees 700,000 in the West Indies, 20,000 in Mauritius, and 40,000 in South Africa. The exceptions are the territories controlled by the East India Company and Ceylon. [114] France: French Society for the Abolition of Slavery founded in Paris. [115] 1835 Serbia: Freedom granted to all slaves in the moment they step on Serb soil. [116]

  6. John Hawkins (naval commander) - Wikipedia

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    Lovell sailed to the West African coast in 1566 and through piracy captured five ships, three of which were slave ships. He took the cargo of enslaved people and other goods to the Spanish West Indies to be sold. [15] [14] The sale of the cargo did not go well and Lovell deposited 92 enslaved people ashore without any payment. Drake later ...

  7. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    West Indian sugar became ubiquitous as an additive to Indian tea. It has been estimated that the profits of the slave trade and of West Indian plantations created up to one-in-twenty of every pound circulating in the British economy at the time of the Industrial Revolution in the latter half of the 18th century. [321]

  8. Indentured servitude in British America - Wikipedia

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    Alison Smith and Abbott E. Smith's analysis of London port records shows how the destinations of indentured emigrants shifted from the West Indies towards New England as early as the 1660s, [65] supporting the theory that indentured servitude might have declined in some regions because of labor market dynamics.

  9. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [1] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...