A Timeline of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition 16th Century 1562 1564-65 1567 1607 1618 1619 1623 1625 1626 1649 1655 1655 1656 1657 1660s 1672 1675 1668 1683 1685-86 1690 1692 1698 1699 1702-13 1727 Sir John Hawkins‚ backed by Gonson and other London merchants‚ leaves Plymouth with three ships‚ making him the first English slave trader. He takes 300 Africans and trades them with the Spanish and Portuguese for sugar‚ hides‚ spices and pearls Backed by Queen Elizabeth I‚ Hawkins
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portrays a civilized community with generous citizens‚ and he holds the native culture in high regard. Equiano‚ Olaudah. “Enslaved Captive”. In Worlds of History‚ Volume Two: SInce 1400. First Edition. Edited by Kevin Reilly. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. 2000. The “Enslaved Captive” is the autobiography of an African native’s transition from freedom in Africa to slavery in the Americas. Olaudah Equiano describes how kind and benevolent his masters were in Africa‚ and then demonstrates how savage the
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and it shows how all the slaves were stowed away and how packed those ships really were. The primary course document that I related to this project was “ The interesting Narrative od the life of Olaudah Equalano” I choose this narrative because it related to the topic that I picked in the narrative Olaudah was saying how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery he also talked about the living conditions on the boat which were the same in my article. For example‚ he went out with his sister and was kidnapped
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1-ORIGINS OF NEGRITUDE The historical origins of Negritude can be traced to the various forms of cultural expression in the French Caribbean that find their roots in the African continent‚ practices that were transmogrified by the experience of the Middle Passage and slavery. Like the North American spirituals first championed in The Souls of Black Folk‚ by W. E. B. Du Bois‚ a variety of arts and practices served as refuges for Afro-Caribbean pride and African culture: the dances called calenda
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went on become governor of the Plymouth Colony. Another perspective‚ is of Olaudah Equiano‚ who served as an African slave and came to the America not by choice‚ but by force. Born in Africa to a village chief‚ Equiano was suppose to follow in his father’s footsteps. However‚ at age 11 he was kidnapped and loaded into a crowded slave ship with inhumane conditions. After barely surviving the poor conditions of the trip‚ Equiano was first taken to the Barbados‚ and then to Virginia to work in a plantation
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and freedom from the English government. One of the main reasons Africans immigrated to America was because they were either coerced or forced to come to the colonies from Africa as slaves. In Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Odudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ Equiano was sold into slavery unwillingly and came to America. This is just one of the many stories of the slaves who were brought there. Another reason many people immigrated
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Capital of Tenochtitlan and the conquest of the Incas in Peru. This is the most important to me because it showed the true heart of the soldier and navigation spirit of the African people. The event that interested me the least was a fact that Equiano recalled on the slave ship. “Even known them (sailors) to gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old.” This event showed the true nature of slave ship owners who rationalized human trafficking based on the fact that Africans were
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Although all the slave narratives are similar in some respects; Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was comparatively different from Olaudah Equiano’s and Venture Smith’s slave narratives. The major contrasts start in the beginning; Jacobs’ was born into slavery‚ whereas Equiano and Smith were native Africans who were captured and brought to America. By being born into slavery I believe that she had a different mentality of what being a slave was‚ unlike the other two authors who
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Accessed 22 Mar. 2024. The. Equiano‚ Olaudah. A. An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. docs.google.com/document/d/1x5U_lj2EUmqc98_kkbzJgbAr6VnK4jLrubWgBWAUAfY/edit?usp=classroom_web&authuser=0. Accessed 22 Mar. 2024. The. Hammond‚ James. A. “The Mudsill Theory.” docs.google.com/document/d/17N9bXni_4p0XeqzRcYROLC_uXtyoGETyJHope4DdwQ4/edit
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Millions of immigrants from all over the world came to America during the late Colonial and Antebellum eras. In the Curtis Family Letters‚ Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America‚ and Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography‚ there are many push and pull factors that are told and talked about that are reasons the immigrants came to America. The push and pull factors that brought immigrants to America during those times were being captured and forced into slavery‚ living in poverty while
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