On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The institutions of the Atlantic World, from the European states to the sugar plantations, maintained a rigid hierarchy of power, from king or plantation owner down to laborers such as slaves and ...

This book has two goals. First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica and Mount Airy ...

The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope, taking slaves from the Zambezi valley and Mozambique. 3. The French had started up sugar and coffee plantations in Mauritius and Reunion.

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Scotland's History Enlightenment and Empire Scots own Colonial plantations The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

The ground on the sugar plantation had to be dug over ... publish an autobiography and the first woman to present an anti-slavery petition to Parliament. Prince documented her life in her ...

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, the last nation in the ... most of them destined for gold mines and sugar plantations, brutal work that killed a third to a half of them within five years.