Sentences with phrase «coast slave trade»

In Windward Coast — West Coast Slave Trade (2009 - 2011) a crescendo of piano keys swell in turbulent waves, recalling the lives lost in Middle Passage.

Effia soaks in relative affluence and her immediate family members become key power brokers in the Gold Coast slave trade, even as later relatives want to have little to do with this stain of history.

Homegoing is set against the backdrop of the Gold Coast slave trade.

Not exact matches

India (one of the bloodiest conquests in human history — with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS enslaved); 120 million from the African slave trade, Saharan / East coast edition... think the Islamisation and genocide that occurred recently in Sudan spread over a millenium (and they castrated the men).

The Portuguese had trading posts in several places on the west and east coasts of Africa, but they were predominantly a source of slaves and did not embrace many square miles.

Arab traders had virtual control of the region — especially the coast — for a thousand years, while trading in spices and slaves.

Here, we studied the genome - wide diversity of the African - descent Makranis, who reside on the Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan, as well that of four neighboring Pakistani populations, to investigate the genetic legacy, population dynamics, and tempo of the Indian Ocean slave trade.

My appreciation of American history has been forever altered by visiting the slave dungeons of Cape Coast Castle and being exposed to the horrors of the slave trade.

Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi This novel spans three continents recounting the origin of the slave trade on the Gold Coast of Africa to the traders in England and the plantations in America and its effects on one family across multiple generations.

Ghana COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD No 69: Ghana, land of the well preserved and restored Cape Coast Castle, one of the «gates of no return» of the infamous Atlantic slave trade.

«The rich diversity of New Orleans has developed over a long history of colonization, the trans - Atlantic slave trade, waves of migration and displacement, and Gulf Coast trade routes buoyed by the city's position as the American South's largest port.

An Aboriginal man who grew up on the far north coast of NSW and a descendant of the reprehensible slave trade with connections to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Sol Bellear AM was a true activist and justice warrior for First Nations people.