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Late Eighteenth Century British North America
2,918 words... tes often greater than for all other overseas trades combined. Slave mortality usually increased during the last stages of a particularly long passage when there were shortages of food and water. The Atlantic crossing lasted three to five weeks from West African trading sites such as the Gambia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone Rivers. Near the equator, in regions such as the Bights of Benin and Biafra (near present-day Nigeria), the voyage to the Americas took several months. A few French ships tr...
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African Societies Slave Trade
449 wordsIt began with the exploration of the Portuguese in and around western Africa in the late 1400 's to gain access to the Akan goldfields of West Africa. Once they gained access to these fields it helped finance future exploration round the southern tip of Africa and reach the trade markets of the Indian Ocean. They purchased silk, spices, perfumes and other goods, return it to Europe and sold it for a profit. They built the fort of Elmina in West Africa to protect their interests from other Europe...
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Term African Slave Trade
1,642 wordsThe first thing that needs to be established is just how many slaves were brought to the Americas. This has proven to be quite difficult at best. There have been many scholars debate just this subject alone. As you will see, many well known scholars have problems justifying their own estimations or guesses. A quick study of Philip D. Curtin's work: From Guesses to Calculations: Shows his writings are a compilation of bits-n-pieces of information from previously thought of unimportant publishing'...
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Reading This Book Writing This Book
1,573 wordsIn the book Things Fall Apart, China Achebe is trying to give an explanation of what it is like to live in an African society. The story is about a man named Okonkwo who is a member of the Ibo tribe. Achebe is telling the story of Okonkwo from his childhood till his death. Before I read this book I did not have a very good idea of how people lived in Africa, and the ideas of I did have about life in traditional African societies turned out to be untrue. Achebe did a very good job of illustrating...
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York Vintage Books Post Colonial
1,732 wordsPost-Colonialism: Trying To Regain Ethnic Individuality Essay, Post-Colonialism: Trying To Regain Ethnic Individuality Indeed, the stranger has unusual customs. The white man held the paper like a sacred thing. His hands shook, and we mistrusted him For how many moons will the stranger be among us? (Vera 43) The stranger still lives among the people of Zimbabwe, though the colonial political authority has left. Yet I wonder if the town elder speaking in the above passage from Yvonne Vera's Nehan...
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Atlantic Slave Trade Late Nineteenth Century
6,974 wordsStudies In The World History Of Slavery, Studies In The World History Of Slavery, Abolition And Emancipation, I, 1 (1996). THE TRANSITION FROM THE SLAVE TRADETO LEGITIMATE COMMERCE Robin Law (University of Stirling, Scotland) Abstract: This study reconsiders several controversies resulting from the historical debate over legitimate trade nineteenth-century exports of African commodities other than slaves West Africa. The controversies reviewed include the incidence of enslavement in West African...
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