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Luis introduced me to town historian María Cristina Sotomayor Guma who told me that Jovellanos once hosted 44 sugar mills powered by slaves from Benin, with some 800,000 brought to Cuba from West Africa during the slave trade era.

If your pet food contains fish meal or fish oil harvested and processed in Asia, it probably was processed by the 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).

You might think you know about the slave trade, but you don't understand it, it's daily rhythms and international consequences until you read this book.

Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious 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.

The South American country was ruled by the Portuguese from 1500 to 1815 and during this time the slave trade reached Brazil as well.

Written in Putney's elegant style, A Distant Magic is a highly romantic fantasy novel woven with multicultural chords and sharpened with commentary about slavery and the slave trade.

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.

These visits, my naval experience, sailing my own yacht, and serving as one of the crew in a tall ship all inspired me to write A Fisher of Slaves, a tale of the Atlantic slave trade.

During the 18th century it was an important center for the slave trade.

In short order, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours.

«The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record» traces the experience of those who were sold into slavery in Africa and transported to the Americas, as well as that of their descendants.

Readings of Interest on the Web On this BBC site, read «Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade,» an article by Dr. Hakim Adi, author and reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Middlesex University, London.

So it is that just as the young and stunning Effia Otcher from the Fanteland region is promised in marriage to a white slave trader James Collins, a match that ensures the consolidation of her family's socioeconomic status, her half - sister Esi, belonging to another tribe, is swept up in the country's booming slave trade.

(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.

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.

Having made their way across the Atlantic with the slave trade, the elements of hoodoo frequently merge with European and Native American folkloric traditions and often incorporate Biblical psalms.

Homegoing is set against the backdrop of the Gold Coast 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.

Who is complicit in the slave trade?

My first novel, Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.

Historic England has researched the connections between the transatlantic slave trade and the properties in the care of English Heritage.

L11 - Piracy and the Caribbean L12 - Impact of Slave Trade on Britain L13 - early settlements in America L14 - Why did America fight back against t...

This escape room has students decode interesting facts about the Columbian Exchange, triangular trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Nelson Mandela Play 1: The Slave Trade - Discussion on Racism (incl.

This is a complete lesson exploring the Slave Trade triangle.

Fischer: During my second year of teaching, in the mid-1970s, I recall simulating the African slave trade by having students rotating on a daily basis for about a week various roles associated with that topic — tribal chief, slave trader, colonial buyer, and slave.

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).

For instance, they lay out what specific textbooks omitted about Columbus's involvement with the slave trade and genocide.

In recent years, the conversation has become more nuanced, as educators — and people across the country — have begun to explore the many reasons why celebrating Christopher Columbus is problematic: the violent abuse of indigenous peoples, the launch of the transatlantic slave trade, and the introduction of a swath of lethal diseases to an unprepared continent.

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.

There was a time, for example, when historians didn't worry much about the slave trade and the emergence of an economy based on forced labor.

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

Students can decide which factors help to end the slave trade, slavery itself, or both.

A powerpoint designed to allow students to look for reasons that the slave trade, and slavery, ended.

The slave trade is illegal in many parts of the world — but some slave traders pay no attention to the laws.

What I gained is an appreciation of the Ghanaian people through their history, culture, art, music and dance and, most importantly for me, a better understanding of how the slave trade changed the world.

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.

In this lesson students research different methods of commemorating the slave trade and abolition before designing their own.

Great for a last lesson within a scheme of work on the Slave Trade or for Black History Month.

This lesson can be used to front a slave trade scheme of work.

Through the journey of the drum - from West Africa to America and then to England - we can trace the upheavals and horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.

Explores the slave trade using videos, quote cards, exploring the slave trade today, create a campaign, peer review and a levelled question (to adapt to your school's new assessment criteria).

A presentation detailing the transatlantic slave trade, with pictures and text - to stimulate discussion in geography or PSHE

This resource is for KS2 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of South Africa (or any topic connected to South Africa, slave trade, communication etc).

A complete teachers resource that enables teachers worldwide to teach the Transatlantic Slave Trade with sensitivity, empathy and the role played by black and white abolitionists to end the Slave Trade.

With all this in mind, I recently asked my Latin American History students to debate whether we should celebrate a national holiday in honor of Christopher Columbus — the man most responsible for starting the trans - Atlantic slave trade, an indigenous holocaust, and a legacy of cultural destruction.

In the opening scene of Black Panther — after an animated prologue that features a pocket history of tribal strife, regal succession, the slave trade, and world war — we are transported to Oakland in 1992.