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For example, some 4000 African slaves were used to build the Colombo fortress in Dutch Ceylon. Bali and neighbouring islands supplied regional networks with c. 100,000–150,000 slaves 1620–1830. Indian and Chinese slave traders supplied Dutch Indonesia with perhaps 250,000 slaves during the 17th and 18th centuries. [113]
Afro-Guyanese, also known as Black Guyanese, are generally descended from the enslaved African people brought to Guyana from the coast of West Africa to work on sugar plantations during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Coming from a wide array of backgrounds and enduring conditions that severely constrained their ability to preserve their ...
Most of the enslaved Africans brought to Barbados were from the Bight of Biafra (62,000 Africans), the Gold Coast (59,000 Africans), and the Bight of Benin (45,000 Africans). [2] Other African slaves came from Central Africa (29,000 slaves), Senegambia (14,000 Africans), the Windward Coast (13,000 slaves) and from Sierra Leone (9,000 slaves). [2]
Ya'qubi records that both male and female slaves were employed in the copper mines of Upper Egypt. [36] The Qarmatian Republic of eastern Arabia is said to have employed 30,000 blacks slaves to perform all difficult labor. [36] Some black slaves served in the military forces of North Africa.
In 1533, enslaved Afro-Peruvians accompanied Spaniards in the conquest of Cuzco. [5] Two types of African people were forced to Peru. Those born in Africa were commonly referred to as negros bozales ("untamed blacks"), which was also used in a derogatory sense. These slaves could have been directly captured and shipped from west or southwest ...
Sade Green visits the burial site of her enslaved African ancestors and explores what it means to be a witness to their lives and legacy. ... names more than 130 enslaved Black men who built and ...
Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent. Research by Henry Louis Gates and other sources regards their population to be around 1-2%. [2] [3] [4] They descended from: enslaved Africans by the Spanish, as well as those who were enslaved from the West Indies and identify as Creole peoples, and the Garifuna who descend from exiled zambo Maroons from Saint ...
The culture of the Creoles is a fusion of different cultures consisting that of the European slave owners (mainly the Dutch, English and Jews), and that of the various Western and Central African tribes. The native language of the Creoles is Sranantongo, because slaves were historically forbidden to learn and speak Dutch.