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  1. 2 days ago · As he becomes a young man he goes on a lone mission of vengeance against the vicious slave traders who enslaved him as a youth and the treacherous warlord who killed his father. Watchlist Seen

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  2. 1 day ago · The East India Company's archives suggest its involvement in the slave trade began in 1684, when a Captain Robert Knox was ordered to buy and transport 250 slaves from Madagascar to St. Helena. The East India Company began using and transporting slaves in Asia and the Atlantic in the early 1620s, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, [1] or in 1621, according to Richard Allen. [53]

  3. 5 days ago · From 1726 to 1748 the consequence was continual warfare on the Slave Coast, the ultimate results of which were that Dahomey was led by force of arms to recognize Oyo suzerainty and that the slave trade became firmly established, both under strict royal control in Dahomey’s port of Whydah and, increasingly, in ports beyond its control to the ...

  4. 1 day ago · In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity.

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  5. 3 days ago · Slave Voyages documents the history of the transatlantic slave trade and forced migration of millions of people from Africa to the Americas between 1514 and 1866. The site is geared toward scholars, educators, and students and is made up of three main databases.

  6. 2 days ago · Historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University have estimated that of the Africans captured and then sold as slaves to the New World in the Atlantic slave trade, around 90% were enslaved by fellow Africans who sold them to European traders.

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  8. 3 days ago · A research group has discovered over a third of the founding members of a private members' club had direct ties to the slave trade. The Liverpool Black History Research Group (LBHRG) has...