Atlantic Slave Trade: Did you mean...?

The 1811 German Coast Uprising (8-11 January 1811) was the largest slave revolt in US history involving between 300-500 enslaved and free Blacks in the Louisiana parishes of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Jefferson...

Peoples, cities and states have traded since antiquity but in the medieval period, things escalated so that goods travelled ever greater distances by land, river and sea. Great cities arose thanks to commerce and international...

The drafting and adoption of the United States Constitution recalled many of the high ideals of liberty and freedom that were espoused during the Revolutionary War...

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On the salty Nathaniel Bacon and how his little rebellion in the early American colonies paved the way for the African Slave Trade.

Wreckage of the slave ship Clotilda, photograph included in Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South, c. 1914. The "wreckage," as pictured here, would be the dark line of wood appearing out of...

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was a law that required citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves. It was highly controversial and contributed to tensions between the North and South leading up to the...

Ancient China was often connected to the rest of the world through trade, not only along the famous Silk Road but also via merchant ships that sailed the Indian Ocean, connecting East Asia to the Middle East...

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James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830) was a Presbyterian minister in Pictou, Nova Scotia, who became the first published abolitionist in Canada through...