The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

A slave could become free by converting to ... Over the first 50 years of the 18th century, the number of Africans brought to British colonies on British ships rose from 5,000 to 45,000 a year.

the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807. The Act made it illegal to buy and sell enslaved people throughout the British colonies. However, while the act ...

Scots appear to be unwilling to accept their country's leading role in creating the British Empire ... including the slave trade before it was abolished in the early 19th Century.

Only a minority accept that Scotland partnered England to derive its historical wealth from slavery and colonies ...

"Many wealthy residents were handsomely compensated by the British ... from colonies with rum, muscovado sugar, rice and mahogany. Tobacco from from the Americas arrived from slave plantations ...

When you think about slavery in the United States you probably think about it happening in the deep south in the 1800’s and causing the Civil War. However, slavery was ...

Martinique and the Southern United States after the different abolitions of slavery, between 1833 and 1838 for the British colonies, in 1848 for the French colonies, then in 1865 for the United States ...

Ireland's oldest university is to begin a two-year investigation into its links with slavery and the British Empire ... and reflect on its complex colonial legacies". For example, TCD's library ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had said that compensation for slavery wasn't on the agenda at this week's biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, or CHOGM, in the Samoan capital ...

“But it was the centre of British colonial life. Slaves worked the docks there.” He added: “Slavery is seen in everything here, in relationships, in culture, in health, in the sense of humou ...