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Slavery was common for the Nahuas, so their language included nouns, for example, for "slave merchant" and for "slave", and a verb for the "selling of people". [69] Their southern neighbors, the Maya , captured and enslaved Spaniards beginning in 1511; [ 70 ] some of the enslaved European women, forced to grind corn, died of overwork.
She noted that the mortality of slaves was high, with the average age of First Nations slaves only 17, and the average age of slaves of African descent, 25. One of the first recorded Black slaves in Canada was brought by a British convoy to New France in 1628. Olivier le Jeune was the name given to the boy, originally from Madagascar.
Dahomey King Agaja from 1718 to 1740, opposed the Atlantic slave trade and refused to sell African people and attacked the European forts built along the slave coast in West Africa. Donna Beatriz Kimpa Vita in Kongo and Senegalese leader Abd al-Qadir, advocated resistance against the forced exportation of Africans. [123]
The maritime town of Lagos, Portugal, was the first slave market created in Portugal for the sale of imported African slaves, the Mercado de Escravos, which opened in 1444. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In 1441, the first slaves were brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania . [ 17 ]
Fugitive Slaves in Canada poster for Rev. William King. There was not a major influx of Black people into Canada until the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 in the United States. The law made it easier for slave catchers to apprehend African Americans, and freedom seekers planned to settle in what is now Ontario. [1]
Zanzibar was once East Africa's main slave-trading port, during the Indian Ocean slave trade and under Omani Arabs in the 19th century, with as many as 50,000 slaves passing through the city each year. [40] Prior to the 16th century, the bulk of slaves exported from Africa were shipped from East Africa to the Arabian peninsula.
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...