Sentences with phrase «of 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.»

In Brazil, it resulted in mass forced conversions to Catholicism, and a deep unease over importing further Africans into the country, cited as one of the possible reasons for that country's abolition of the slave trade.

For nearly five years, he has been engaged in a long - range photographic research project on the memories of the slave trade and slavery.

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.

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.

To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, Lancashire Museums invited artist Lubaina Himid to create new work exploring Lancaster's significant role in this trade, its legacies and the issues that still have an impact on today's society

Since its debut at the 2015 Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah's panoramic three - channel video installation Vertigo Sea has garnered accolades for its unflinching look at historical maritime horrors ranging from the greed of the whaling industry to the cruelty of the slave trade, all while invoking the sublime beauty of the natural landscape.

has garnered accolades for its unflinching look at historical maritime horrors ranging from the greed of the whaling industry to the cruelty of the slave trade, all while invoking the sublime beauty of the natural landscape.

Naming the Money (2004) which also appeared as part of the V&A exhibition, Uncomfortable Truths (2007), Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007) and Talking on Corners Speaking in Tongues (2007) were all central to the cultural events surrounding the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain

He has echoes of the slave trade, but not as documentation so much as a soulful whisper.

Stacy Lynn Waddell has a sailing ship out of the slave trade, but under a blue sky.

After being discovered by the Portuguese explorer, Chagos was populated by the French, who transformed Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago with an advantageously deep lagoon, into a series of plantations and the nexus of their slave trade.

The work's source — a horrific episode in the history of the slave trade, in which an infection caused the passengers of a slave ship to suddenly go blind — is obliquely referenced with a view of the ocean and a tiny eye standing in for a button on a coat.

The tobacco container in this visual context, however, quickly calls forth narratives of the slave trade and middle passage.

Brunias painted plantation owners as well as noble savages, not to mention soldiers intent on «pacification,» as a very different ideal, and El Museo del Barrio continues with a brutal taste of the slave trade's real gold.

This thriving, vibrant nation still bears the scars of this inhumane practice, and you can visit museums and buildings around the country that have recorded the history of the slave trade.

A sad and beautiful book, sometimes touched with magic and mysticism, it is a must - read for anyone interested in the history of the slave trade and the people whose lives were altered by the global fight for power, wealth and, ultimately, survival.

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.

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Also New York (City and State) and Albany are named after a slavetrader and their names are symbolic of England's desire to gain control of the Slave Trade from the Dutch (who were the ones who introduced slavery to Virginia in the first place).

The museum, the only national museum dedicated to African American history, shares the history of African Americas from the days of the slave trade through slavery in the United States.

A worksheet differentiated for the higher -, medium - and lower - ability students, containing reasons for the abolition of the slave trade, and slavery itself.

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.

Students explore the nature of the slave trade.

His latest film explores the brutal history of the slave trade in the USA.

She never wants to be reminded of the slave trade era where her loved one would simply be snatched away at any time.

By comparing the genes of current - day North and South Americans with African and European populations, an Oxford University study has found the genetic fingerprints of the slave trade and colonization that shaped migrations to the Americas hundreds of years ago.

The routes of slave trade in Eastern Europe in the medieval and pre-modern period extended all the way to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia.

But the 1998 tour of Guyana, to mark the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slave trade, would mark the grandest of Stella's patriotic travels, given the calibre of Nigerians, on that entourage.

He opposed Catholic emancipation, Lords reform and supporting war against Napoleon and the abolition of the slave trade.

He said he was «content» at the reinstatement as a Labour member of the vice-chair of Momentum, Jackie Walker, who was suspended earlier this year after saying Jews were the «chief financiers of the slave trade».

We share a dark history of slave trade — shameful and unforgivable part of Danish history.

The slaves were treated under the most inhumane conditions, and scars of the slave trade remain today with racial tension persisting in some western countries.

Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone.

The powerful symbolism of Sierra Leone's historical memory of the slave trade (see Shaw 2002) was not simply embodied in marginal youths» existence in the tunnels under King Jimmy Bridge.

And on the other hand, the post-1688 sense that the Williamite and then Hanoverian State, its Empire, and that Empire's capitalist ideology were somehow less than fully legitimate was passed down among Catholics, High Churchmen (and thus first Methodists and then also Anglo - Catholics), Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers and others, contributing significantly to the creation of the American Republic, to the abolition of the slave trade, to the extension of the franchise, to the emergence of the Labour Movement, and to the opposition to the Boer and First World Wars.

The argument that it should be regarded as such because has a Christian heritage and tradition carries little real relevance — Britain also has a history of believing in the inequality of the sexes and the legitimacy of the slave trade.

The former deputy prime minister joined culture minister Margaret Hodge for the official opening of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

Peanuts came to America from Africa by way of the slave trade.

He paved the way for the permanent abolition of slave trade in Africa in the years ahead.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

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).

I am sorry but this is exactly the definition of the slave trade.

Yet Christian reformers pressed on, rolling back, one by one, features of the slave trade until it was abolished in 1807 and slavery itself in 1833.

In fact while the Constitution contained a clause that provided for the outlawing of the slave trade for a twenty year period, that document also made concessions to slavery; Article IV, Section 2, and of course the «federal ratio.»

Interestingly, an economic study of the slave trade there would consider whether the effort by some Christians to buy slaves in order to set them free has had the effect of increasing the market price for slaves.)

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

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].

Check out John Newton or William Wilberforce in relation to the ending of the slave trade.

But Welles» partying is interrupted by the reality of the Dalits» suffering and the horrors of the slave trade.