Sentences with phrase «british slave trade»

2007 Victoria & Albert Museum 2007 saw the bi-centenary of the parliamentary abolition of the British slave trade.

Also in 2007, the artist presents newly commissioned work at the V&A for Uncomfortable Truths - the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art and design (20 February - 17 June 2007), an exhibition marking the bicentenary of the outlawing of the British slave trade.

Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce worked tirelessly to expose the truths about the cruel and gruesome conditions endured by the slaves in the British slave trade (pp. 235 — 36).

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1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the South and North American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists / atheists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communism vs. Christianity et al) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians vs pagans) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

Rank Death Toll Cause Centuries 1 63 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 40 million Genghis Khan 13C 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 15 million First World War 20C 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

... Britain intervened directly to stop the international slave trade... set new standards in healthcare... stood against a Nazi tyranny... forg [ed] the post-war international consensus which... ushered in a hitherto unknown period of peace and prosperity in Europe... [and] helped give birth to a peaceful resolution of the conflict [in Northern Ireland]... Your Government and people are the shapers of ideas that still have an impact far beyond the British Isles...

Touches of the wider world sometimes impinge on Austen's peaceful outposts — Wickham, a soldier, plays a prominent role in Pride and Prejudice, there are passing references to the British colonies and the slave trade in Mansfield Park, and the British navy's preservation of England in the Napoleonic Wars is duly noted in Persuasion.

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians et al and Communists vs. Christians et al, Nazi - Pagan and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communism) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

As part of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 — named for the famous British Christian abolitionist responsible for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 — Congress passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA).

1 63 million Second World War 20C (Christians and Communists vs. Christians, Nazi - Pagans and «Shintoists») 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C (Communists / atheists) 40 million Genghis Khan 13C (Shamanism or Tengriism) 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C (Anglican) 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese folk religion) 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C (Communists / atheists) 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C (Islam) 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C (Christianity) 11 15 million First World War 20C (Christians vs. Christians) 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C (Christians) 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C (Christians vs Communists / atheists) 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C (Pagans vs Pagans) 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C (Christians vs Pagans) 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C (Christians vs Christians) 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C

Richard Reddie highlights the key events that led to the historic vote by the British parliament exactly 200 years ago to outlaw the slave trade, in this... More

1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

In the same century, the advocacy efforts of William Wilberforce and other Christians helped abolish the slave trade throughout the British Empire.

1 63 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 40 million Genghis Khan 13C 4 27 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C 8 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 9 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 10 16 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 15 million First World War 20C 15 million Conquest of the Americas 15C - 19C 13 13 million Muslim Conquest of India 11C - 18C 14 10 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 10 million Xin Dynasty 1C 16 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 17 8 million Fall of Rome 5C 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 19 7 1/2 million Thirty Years War 17C 7 1/2 million Fall of the Yuan Dynasty 14C»

Cameroon has a lengthy history of political and social repression, beginning with pre-colonial contact with European explorers in the 16th century, the transatlantic slave trade, forced labour and colonisation (first as a German protectorate until the end of WWI, and then divided among the French and British into two colonised Cameroons).

Indeed, the Saro (freed former slaves from Sierra - Leone), the natives openly mocked as dual «parasites» — who feasted on the Eko natives «for trade»; and on the British colonisers «for culture».

Tagged With: 18th century British history, based on a true story, ending the slave trade, Michael Apted, Parliament, politics, William Pitt, William Wilberforce

Michael Apted's impassioned history lesson, about crusading reformer William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) and his dream to outlaw the slave trade in the British Empire, begins with William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch) poised to become England's youngest Prime Minister.

Michael Apted's 2006 historical biopic Amazing Grace, about William Wilberforce's campaign to end the slave trade in the British Empire, far more effectively expressed the political mood of the era as well as exploring how Wilberforce's private and public life affected each other.

Steve McQueen is definitely one of the most challenging filmmakers working now — his star is rising after his considerable talents were discovered in his films Hunger and Shame, and now the West - Indian / British filmmaker is tackling the white whale (no pun intended) of the American slave trade with 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon Norslave trade with 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon NorSlave, an adaptation of the autobiography of Solomon Northup.

(The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition.

After years of plundering the Caribbean Sea, fighting against the powerful British navy and trading slaves, Mundaca found love in this peaceful place.

The Maya who settled throughout the island and developed an economy based on trading and exploitation of the marine resources had practically nothing in common with the pirates who succeeded them, or with the British agriculturists who marshalled their slaves in a futile attempt to convert the island into a cotton plantation.

2007 witnessed major exhibitions in British museums and galleries to mark the anniversary of the 1807 abolition act — 1807 Commemorated [60] 2008 marks the 201st anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire.

The museum is contained within the forbidding 19th - century warehouses of the Albert Dock, which speaks more lucidly than any other British setting of the history of the slave trade, documented in detail at the International Slavery Museum nearby.

A look at what's there in English brought up first of all, appropriately enough, given the recent 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, a 1772 monograph by Anthony Benezet, «Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants: with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects.»