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"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
Others on his list included The Atlantic Slave Trade (2003), by Johannes Postma, [46] which he suggested should be read first; Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (1967) edited by Philip Curtin; [47] and The Atlantic Slave Trade (1994) edited by David Northrup. [48]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Ironically the last “Slave Stealer,” a Union soldier from Ohio named David C. McDonald, did not taste freedom until 1870—over five years after the death of slavery.
Map of Meridian Line set under the Treaty of Tordesillas The Slave Trade by Auguste François Biard, 1840. The Atlantic slave trade is customarily divided into two eras, known as the first and second Atlantic systems. Slightly more than 3% of the enslaved people exported from Africa were traded between 1525 and 1600, and 16% in the 17th century.
"Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)This is a bibliography of works regarding the internal or domestic slave trade in the United States (1776–1865, with a measurable increase in activity after 1808, following the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves).
An academic inquiry into its slavery history, the Lemon Project, is underway. [104] Between 1760 and 1765, the Prince George House may have been used by English philanthropists, the Associates of Dr. Bray (named for Thomas Bray), to Christianize and educate local enslaved and free black children.
Oklahoman and Hobby Lobby founder David Green is one of a few billionaires whose donations have gone toward organizations dedicated to election integrity going into the 2024 presidential election ...