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Middle Passage
MIDDLE PASSAGE MIDDLE PASSAGE. Even before African slaves arrived on the shores of Virginia in 1619, the slave trade figured significantly in the economy of the Atlantic nations. Established primarily by sea captains from England and New England, a system of trading routes developed... Read more |
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Triangular trade
TRIANGULAR TRADE TRIANGULAR TRADE. At least two overlapping patterns of trans-Atlantic trade developed in the colonial era whereby profits from rum and other American and British manufactured goods sold on the west coast of Africa financed the purchase of enslaved Africans. Those slaves were then... Read more |
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trade association
trade association group of business people in the same trade or industry organized for the advancement of common interests. The trade association differs from the chamber of commerce in that membership is by industry rather than by locality. The common interests binding the members of the trade... Read more |
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trading companies
TRADING COMPANIES TRADING COMPANIES. The early seventeenth century saw the foundation of Dutch and English trading companies with exclusive rights over vast areas in various parts of the globe. These organizations were essentially merchant guilds that represented an "institutional innovation"... Read more |
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overseas trade
overseas trade. There is very limited historical evidence on this subject before the 12th century, although it is known that hides, hunting dogs, slaves, and possibly wool were important exports. In the pre‐Norman period it is the Viking towns such as Dublin and Waterford that provide much... Read more |
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Trades Union Congress
Trades Union Congress. At an early stage of trade union development, the idea of a co-ordinating body emerged and in 1834 the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union was founded. It attracted many members but few funds, and the secretary absconded with what there were. It lasted less than a year.... Read more |
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Birago Diop
Birago Diop1906-1989 Writer At the time of his death in 1989, Birago Diop was one of Senegal's most prominent writers, and had been since he first rose to fame in the 1950s. Though he wrote in the French language, Diop's works drew upon the folktales of his West African nation's indigenous Wolof... Read more |
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Bangui
Bangui , city (1994 est. pop. 560,000), capital of the Central African Republic, a port on the Ubangi River, near the Congo (Kinshasa) border. Bangui is an administrative, trade, and communications center. Its manufactures include textiles, food products, beer, shoes, and soap. Bangui's port handles... Read more |
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Samuel Adjai Crowther The Anglican bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther (ca. 1806-1891) was a pioneer African missionary and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Samuel Crowther, of the Yoruba tribe, was enslaved in 1821 and put aboard a ship which was captured by the British navy. The... Read more |
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Saint Peter Claver
Saint Peter Claver , 1581-1654, Spanish Jesuit missionary, called the Apostle of the Blacks. He was sent to what is now Colombia in 1610 and began at once his life work of ministering to the bodies and souls of the West African slaves, then being imported in large numbers. He worked indefatigably... Read more |
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Analysis: African leaders want apology from Western nations for slave trade
...Analysis: African leaders want apology from Western nations for slave trade Host: LISA...that among African leaders there...millions of Africans were seized...virtually every African country ... |
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AFRICA ALSO NEEDS TO OFFER APOLOGIES FOR SLAVE TRADE.(Local)(Column)
...fearing an apology would encourage...slaves to demand reparations...his six-nation African tour. But...the slave trade sounded quite...Of all the African leaders he...West ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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DURBAN CONFERENCE: EU nations left in the spotlight over slavery apologies...
...the United Nations conference...transatlantic slave trade. Britain...20 million Africans cross the Atlantic...divided. Leading African governments...would like an apology for slavery...But some African ... |
 "Daily Mail (London)")
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Slavery and the stinking hypocrisy of Mr Mugabe; As the United Nations holds...
...in a slave trade which ended...the former slave- owning white nations, Britain...of African slaves for the wrong...involve 150 nations (including...humanity'. HIS nation - which ... |
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'We repent for robbing Africans of their history and identity'
...the slave trade and other...committed against Africans. Sifelani...during the slave trade and...reconciliation between Africans and Europeans. The apology, delivered...European African ... |
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Slaves to the PC brigade; Quango will highlight sites linked to shameful...
...rich on the trade would be...apologising for the nation's past...role in the slave trade has...issue an apology to coincide...descendants of slaves are pursuing...to carry slaves across the...historical ... |
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U.S. won't play UN race card Conference delegates likely to decry Zionism,...
...the United Nations Conference...payments (plus apology) by the West to African states and...descendants of slaves in America...host South African government...Most African slaves who ended up...been sold to ... |
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Pan-African Organization Advocates Slave Trade Compensation
...chairman of the African World Repatriation...has called on African leaders to...serious about the demand for compensation of slave trade, Ghanaian...report of United Nations Educational...210 million ... |
 "The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV)")
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Seeking compensation: ; In debate for U.N. racism session, blacks present...
...compensation and an apology for the centuries...part that Africans and African-Americans...or Arabic nations and Africa...Atlantic slave trade? And how...red clay slave house. The...reparations and the ... |
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It's understanding we need, not apologies ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
...all this demand for a gesture...behalf of the nation. Could any...of such an apology is squalid...recognise the slave trade as a crime...home to slaves and ex- slaves and also...abolition of the ... |
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