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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: In the 18th century, the movement to end the slave trade emerged. In Britain a powerful abolition movement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom.New York: Penguin. Rupprecht, Anita, 2007. “A Very Uncommon Case”: Representations of the Zong and the British Campaign to Abolish the ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

Agnès Poras is a tour guide at The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery ... the Nantes History Museum dedicated to the ...

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 ...

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...