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Views of American Slavery: Taken A Century Ago
Benezet, Anthony, and John Wesley. Views of American Slavery: Taken A Century Ago. Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1858.
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Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
Caretta, Vincent. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660–1810
Basker, James G., ed. Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660–1810. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
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Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America
Haskins, James, and Kathleen Benson. Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America. Illus. James Ransome. New York: Amistad, 2001.
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Was slavery the engine of American economic growth?
Few works of history have exerted as powerful an influence as a book published in 1944 called Capitalism and Slavery. Its author, Eric Williams, later the prime minister of Trinidad and Tabago, charged that black slavery was the engine that propelled Europe's rise to global economic dominance. He maintained that Europeans' conquest and settlement of the New World depended on the enslavement of millions of black slaves, who helped amass the capital that financed the industrial revolution. Europe's economic progress, he insisted,...
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Slaves and Slaveholdings
Slaveholding, 1860
Non-slaveholders
76.1 percent
1-9 slaves
17.2 percent
10-99
6.6 percent
over 100
0.1 percent
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Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery
Slave Trade
The level of slave exports grew from about 36,000 a year during the early 18th century to almost 80,000 a year during the 1780s.The Angolan region of west-central Africa made up slightly more than half of all Africans sent to the Americas and a quarter of imports to British North America.Approximately 11,863,000 Africans were shipped across the Atlantic, with a death rate during the Middle Passage reducing this number by 10-20 percent.As a result between 9.6 and 10.8...
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Slavery Fact Sheet
Geography
Enslaved Africans came primarily from a region stretching from the Senegal River in northern Africa to Angola in the south.
Europeans divided this stretch of land into five coasts:
Upper Guinea Coast: The area delineated by the Senegal and Gambia Rivers
Ivory (or Kwa Kwa or Windward) Coast: Central Liberia
Lower Guinea Coast: Divided into the Gold Coast on the west (Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana), the Slave Coast (Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria), and the Bight of Benin (Nigeria and...
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What were the origins of slavery?
In 1690, one out of every nine families in Boston owned a slave. In New York City, in 1703, two out of every five families owned a slave. From Newport, Rhode Island to Buenos Aires, black slaves could be found in virtually every New World area colonized by Europeans.Black slaves arrived in the New World at least as early as 1502. Over the next three centuries, slave traders brought at least fifteen million Africans to the New World (another twenty percent or more Africans died during the march to the West African coast and an...