Sentences with phrase «slave trade until»

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.

For 20 years, Wilberforce campaigned in the parliament against the slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

Not exact matches

A reader who wishes to know, for instance, why Article 1, section 9, clause 1 prohibited Congress from making any alteration until 1808 in «the Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit» can turn to Volume III and find 28 contemporary documents on slavery and the slave trade.

A special committee worked out another compromise: Congress would have the power to ban the slave trade, but not until 1800.

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).

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Finkel (Jonah Hill) was a New York Times writer on his way to greatness until he fabricated a cover story on the African slave trade and smashed his credibility.

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.

The dominant theme of these works is the transport of African slaves to America in the Middle Passage — the second or «middle» leg of the triangular trade of manufactured goods, slaves, and crops that transpired between Europe, Africa, and the American colonies from the colonial period until the middle of the 19th century.

Right up until the abolition of slavery in Great Britain in the 19th century, pretty much all of the 300 companies facilitating the slave trade fought against a ban on the grounds that the economy would collapse.