Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge ... Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700. New York: New York University Press. Rawlin, William, 1699. The ...

By the 18th century, 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work ...

Brown, Vincent. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. [HQ1073.5.J26 B88; also available online from LSE Library]; Curtin ...

After 1700, the numbers of enslaved people being ... Africans due to the Assiento – the right to sell 144,000 Africans into slavery every year in Spanish-controlled territories in South America.

Information or research assistance regarding American Slavery is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this ...

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade. We ...

Here, in the 1700s, no Europeans held sway ... However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between African rulers ...