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For the last sixteen years of the transatlantic slave trade, Spain was the only transatlantic slave-trading empire. [159] 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.
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade - 25 March. International Day for Tolerance - 16 November. International Day for the Abolition of Slavery - 2 December. and: the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition in 2004.
With corrections for missing voyages, the Project has estimated the entire size of the transatlantic slave trade with more comprehension, precision, and accuracy than before. They reckon that in 366 years, slaving vessels embarked about 12.5 million captives in Africa, and landed 10.7 million in the New World.
September 25, 2024 at 11:55 AM. A new exhibition is set to open in Hull reflecting on the transatlantic slave trade. Artist Deanio X has produced a series of artworks in response to research ...
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]
Britain played a leading role in the transatlantic slave trade that peaked in the 1700s and saw millions of African people transported by sea to its colonies in the Americas, the Caribbean and ...
The Igbo of Igboland (in present-day Nigeria) became one of the principal ethnic groups to be enslaved during the Atlantic slave trade. An estimated 14.6% of all enslaved people were taken from the Bight of Biafra, a bay of the Atlantic Ocean that extends from the Nun outlet of the Niger River (Nigeria) to Limbe (Cameroon) to Cape Lopez (Gabon ...
October 24, 2024 at 2:04 PM. [BBC] The UK "can't change our history", Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC when asked about paying reparations to countries impacted by the ...