‘The Zorg’ review: A claim on bondage

An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit the ...
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Slave trade and abolition to be remembered

The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition will be remembered at events in Hull this weekend. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Cheryl Payne, will attend a commemoration on Saturday in ...
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The Abolition of the Atlantic slave trade : origins and effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas / edited by David Eltis and James Walvin with the collaboration of Svend E ...

Some implications of the abolition of the slave trade / Stanley L. Engerman -- The ideology of antislavery / Howard Temperley -- Religion and British slave emancipation / Roger T. Anstey -- The public ...
The Root

How a Look Inside a Slave Ship Turned the Tide Toward Abolition

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...
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Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations

Paul Lashmar is affiliated with the Labour Party. Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely ...
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The Danish slave trade and its abolition / by Erik Gobel

Part 1. The Danish slave trade -- Volume and composition of the slave trade and the trade cargoes -- Transatlantic slave trade shipping -- Slave trade in the Danish West Indies and in Asia -- Part 2.
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British workhouses were founded and sustained on wealth derived from slavery, study shows

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Published in the journal Antipode, the article ...