Sentences with phrase «english slave trade»
One more time and one positive example of prayer changing things is the life of William Wilberforce and the end of the English slave trade.
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Something that valuable was bound to attract attention, and in1561, John Hawkins, an English privateer, hijacked a Portuguese slave ship and traded 300 slaves at Hispaniola for ginger, pearls, and sugar.
Historic England has researched the connections between the transatlantic slave trade and the properties in the care of English Heritage.
Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007), in which beautifully painted black servants and greedy landowners are overlaid on English porcelain, confronts Lancaster's links with the slave trade.
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.»