However, the biggest pressure for the abolition of the slave trade surprisingly came ... And secondly, the Black Atlantic Slave Trade is seen today as one of the greatest atrocities of the modern ...

Fifthly, and lastly, Let the first of January, the day of the abolition of the slave trade in our country, be set apart in every year, as a day of publick thanksgiving for that mercy. Let the ...

It also inspires him to devote his life to the abolition of the slave trade. The student's name was Thomas Clarkson. He, along with another Englishman, William Wilberforce, would lead this fight ...

I offer a new perspective on the slave trade, the Black Atlantic, Catholicism, imperialism and abolition. These are all central to global history. The Atlantic slave trade began in 1415 and ran ...

Many did not survive the brutal journey across the Atlantic ... of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The date marks the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in the United ...

Agnès Poras is a tour guide at The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery ... the Nantes History Museum dedicated to the Atlantic slave trade and colonial slavery, particularly in this room.

This figure exceeds 3,000, compared with the estimate for slaves crossing the Atlantic in ... century as the slave trade reaches its peak and the movement for abolition begins to get under way.

The slave trade was abolished in 1807 ... The clip could act as a recap to study of slavery and abolition. Students could be asked to consider what the lasting global impact of both has been.

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...

Britain’s legacy as a leader in the Atlantic slave trade is often downplayed and overshadowed by the story of abolition, focusing on the moral and humanitarian leaders who lead the movement. This ...