Creation and the Fall Chapter 1 Origin of the Universe.[b] 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[c] 2 The earth was formless and barren, and darkness covered the abyss while the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.3...
Less known is the participation of Africans and their descendants in the middle passage as crews of Spanish ships destined for Cuba; specifically during the period between 1817, with the signing of the first Anglo-Spanish treaty to abolish the Slave Trade and 1845, when the Spanish Penal Code ...
Chattel slavery was less common than the others until the development of the transatlantic slave trade. Which empires used chattel slavery? The European empires all used chattel slavery. The Spanish, Portuguese, French and British were the four main empires that utilized chattel slavery, and this ...
When the Spanish missionaries arrived in the region in the 1540s, they heard the term"Teyshas."Rather than being the name of a particular group, the word was often used as a greeting the way one might say "hello, friend." However, the Europeans heard it applied to members of other gro...
from Spanish or Portuguese (more probably from Portuguese, as the most widespread Spanish word isplátano); Spanish, from Portuguese, of African origin; akin to Wolofbanänabanana Baroque frombarroco(adj. = "unshapely") Breeze (= "from Portuguese word brisa") ...
Elsewhere. The Rev. Robert Durant was rector at Hagley in Worcestershire in the late 1600’s. From his respectable family came less-than-respectable descendants. George Durant got rich, it is believed, from the slave trade and bought with the proceeds the entire village of Tong on Shropshire’...
“Bernstein recounted his childhood experiences at the hands of his rough-dealing harsh father who once dragged his sister Lily through the streets by the hair and forced her to forgo her educational ambitions and work for almost slave wages at a tailoring shop.” ...
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West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch (Neth
The crucial factor in the formation of Afrikaans was the development of a creolized variety of Cape Dutch among both indigenous Khoisan peoples and the imported slave population of the colony. As a result of the intimate interaction of a part of the European population with the Khoisan and sla...