BBC1 年
The abolition of the slave trade in Britain
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 ...
BBC2 个月
Role of the slave trade in British industry
The slave trade stimulated British manufacturing and industry through ... the British colony of Barbados was the richest of all the European colonies in the Caribbean region because of the profits ...
PBS8 年
Colonial laws
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 ...
PBS9 年
From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery
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.
Scots think their country was a victim of the British Empire, poll finds
Only a minority accept that Scotland partnered England to derive its historical wealth from slavery and colonies ...
lse1 年
Social Change and Racial Inequalities in the Post-Slavery Plantation Societies 19th ...
Therefore, as a first step and a first contribution, this research project is based on a new and crucial comparative perspective including Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Southern United ...
Daily Mail5 天
Scots believe they are victims of colonialism despite helping create the British Empire
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.
BBC6 年
Charting Edinburgh's slave trade history
"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 ...
BBC1 年
Trinity College Dublin to look at its slavery and colonial links
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 ...
来自MSN3 个月
Britain's leaders likely to face slavery reparations questions at a summit of former colonies
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 ...
来自MSN11 个月
Jamaica’s ‘dark tourism’ drive will turn colonial buildings into slavery monuments
Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as slavery monuments to boost the “dark tourism” industry on the island. Local activists have led Caribbean demands for reparatory payments for ...