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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 ...
London is set to have its first memorial to victims of transatlantic slavery, with the mayor's office announcing on Friday the design of a long-awaited monument seen by advocates as a step towards ...
Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...
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.
In fact, Britain’s trans-Atlantic slavery business developed an entire infrastructure that shaped many British institutions and communities: transport, ports, docks, customs houses, warehouses ...
A 1729 map showing the Slave Coast The Slave Coast is still marked on this c. 1914 map by John Bartholomew & Co. of Edinburgh. Major slave trading areas of western Africa, 15th–19th centuries. The Slave Coast is a historical region along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, encompassing parts of modern-day Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
Racism, impoverishment and economic underdevelopment are linked to the longstanding consequences of transatlantic slavery from the United States to Europe and the African continent, according to U ...