Origins of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slaveryMuseum director Ashley Rogers explains how the Whitney Plantation became the only former plantation site in Louisiana with an exclusive focus on slavery.(more) ...
Slavery is the condition in which one human being is owned by another. Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, le
Although there is no longer any legal slavery in the world, the Global Slavery Index report released in October 2013 estimates that 29.8 million people remain enslaved today. Using a broader definition of slavery, this includes those living in bondage as forced laborers, those in marriages against...
As the Romans consolidated their hegemony of Italy and Sicily, followed by the systematic conquest of western Europe, countless millions of slaves weretransportedto Rome, the Italian countryside and Latin colonies all over Europe. Agricultural Slavery Though slavery was prevalent in households throughout...
Can you imagine a museum in Mississippi of Slavery without a single on-site African-American member of staff?Can you imagine a museum of Lithuanian shtetl history in Lithuania without a single on-site Jewish member of staff?Yes, it’s the Lost Shtetl Museum in Sheduva (Šeduva), ...
Although this interpretation is not specifically contradicted by classical historians, no historical account mentions that the goal was to end slavery in the Republic. Age: Dec. at 38 (108 BC-70 BC) Birthplace: Thrace Also ranks #1 on The Most Famous Gladiators Of All Time, Ranked By Roman ...
8、 Emperor (Huangdi) End of primitive age Social classes 52 wars,A Brief Chinese History,The Xia Dynasty 21st16th BC The first slavery society Yu the Great (water conservation) Yao (the Xia calendar4 seasons for farming) Jie (the last emperor of Xia.) Qi Jie, 13 generations, 472 years...
and the idea of predestination. Calvinist theology also promoted racial segregation, and the Boers believed that it was their divine duty to rule over the land and the indigenous people that occupied it. Therefore, after the British abolished slavery in 1834, the Boers began to leave Cape Town...
The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, who called for no more expansion of slavery,triggered a crisis as 11 slave states seceded to found the Confederate States of America in 1861.The American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 redefined the nation and remained the central iconic event. The South was...
Braud, David, ‘The Slave Supply in Classical Greece’, in The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World, eds. Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 112-33. Cavallo, Jo Ann, The World Beyond Europe in the Roma...