During her first year at the University of British Columbia she took a summer job doing pilot surveys at Vancouver airports and was treated to her first plane ride and she was hooked. She sold her motorcycle and paid for flying lessons to earn her pilot's license. She did the two year ...
Equiano, whose claim to have been born in Africa has recently been the subject of some dispute, wrote that he was kidnapped from his home as an 11-year-old child and sold to slave traders. He was sold again several times and eventually put on a slave ship to Barbados in the British W...
Thomas Howard British Pirate Active 1698 - 1703 Howard inherited a great deal of money but managed to squander every penny, then fled to Jamaica where he stole a canoe with a motley crew. Howard and his small band seized one ship after another until they ended up with a 24-gun ship. Th...
where they sold them to wealthy Italian buyers.Soon, the Dutch began importing and growing coffee in places like Java and Ceylon(largely through slave labor), and the British East India Trading Company was popularizing the beverage in England.Coffee spread across Europe and even reached America. ...
British traders shipped more than three million men, women and children from Africa to slave markets in the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries. Those who survived the cruel journey were condemned to a life of brutal servitude. Most remained slaves until their dying day.Expressing his shame...
Thomas AnstisBritish PirateActive 1718 - 1723 Captain Anstis sailed with Captain Howell Davis until Davis was murdered in June of 1719. Anstis then signed on with Captain Bartholomew Robert's crew and after Captain Roberts captured a Brigantine in the West Indies, Anstis was made Captain of the...