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The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas
After banning the transportation of slaves in 1807, Britain established the West Africa Squadron, a naval force that patrolled the waves of the Atlantic in search of slave ships. The Transatlantic ...
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What were West African slave fortresses?
Millions of enslaved Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved people. The wealth to be made ...
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The East African Slave Trade
2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope ...
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Before 1776: America and Africa's Shared Colonial Fate
From the 1650s to 1776, parts of the Americas and coastal regions of West Africa were under British authority and connected ...
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Last survivor of US slave ships discovered
The last known survivor of the transatlantic slave ships, brought to the US in 1860, has been identified by an academic at Newcastle University. Sally Smith was kidnapped from West Africa by slave ...
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Benin grants citizenship to slave descendants as it faces its own role in the trade
In this Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, the flags of the nations of Benin and Togo, the west African homes of the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, remain on display on a monument at what was the ...
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The Smithsonian Looks at How the Slave Trade Shaped the World
“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... puts names and faces to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, telling stories that complicate the standard ...