IslandsofSlaves (Danish: Slavernes øer) is a 1970 novel by Danish author Thorkild Hansen. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1971. "Literature...
African slaves, most of them from the Swahili coast and Portuguese East Africa. Many of these slaves later returned to Africa. However, a small group of African...
House ofSlaves (Maison des Esclaves) and its Door of No Return is a museum and memorial to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island, 3 km...
with African slaves and their future offspring being legally the property of their owners, as children born to slave mothers were also slaves (partus sequitur...
Lisbon among the large slave community in 1578, although most of the slaves were black. The Portuguese also valued Oriental slaves more than the black Africans...
raids primarily south of the Sahara, predominately black Africans were traded as slaves to the Middle East, Indian Ocean islands (including Madagascar)...
became a big industry on the islands, domestic slavery expanded to a point where two thirds of the populations were slaves. Zanzibar was internationally...
African slaves during the Atlantic slave trade, which commenced in 1733 and ended in 1807 when the abolition of slavery was announced. The location of the...
Philippine islands. Slaves in Toraja society in Indonesia were family property. People would become slaves when they incurred a debt. Slaves could also...
city of Lepcis established a slave market to buy and sell slaves from the African interior. The empire imposed a customs tax on the trade ofslaves. In...
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions ofslaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...
Italian slave traders in the Crimea. The slave market were divided in two. South Europe were supplyed with male slaves for hard labor or female slaves for...
to have owned slaves at some point in his life. Of these presidents who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson owned the most, with 600+ slaves, followed closely...
The Leeward Islands (/ˈliːwərd/) are a group ofislands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with...
Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1989) that 60–70% of inter-regional migrations were the result of the sale ofslaves. In 1820, a slave child in the...
67 slaves which were removed to Bermuda. This is the first record ofslaves actually being kept on Tortola. The first Dutch settlers also built slave pens...
slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states. European slaves were...
Danish Virgin Islands (Danish: Danske Jomfruøer) or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islandsof Saint Thomas with...
enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved...
source of white slaves to the Islamic Middle East, and these slaves were referred to as "Circassians". In the context of the Circassian slave trade, the...
lifted by Congress in 20 years, and slaves were referred to as "Persons." The Act Prohibiting Importation ofSlaves passed easily in 1807 and took effect...
de La Fargue, transporting slaves from Madagascar to Mauritius in contravention of Mauritian law, ran onto the reefs of the island. The ship had departed...
exported by Ethiopian slave traders to India and Arabia. Female and male slaves from Ethiopia made up the main supply ofslaves to India and the Middle...
lake itself is located on an island. Only a few notable examples are given. There are nearly 1,000 islands in lakes on islands in Finland alone. Moose Boulder...
officials freed the 128 slaves who chose to stay in the islands. The Creole case has been described as the "most successful slave revolt in U.S. history"...
for importation ofslaves alongside Central Asia and Bilad as-Sudan, though slaves from Northwestern Europe were also valued. This slave trade was controlled...
The Balkan slave trade was the trade in slaves from the Balkans via Venetian slave traders across the Adriatic and Aegean Seas to Italy, Spain and the...
originating from freed African slaves brought to the Chagos Islands, specifically Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos, and the Salomon island chain, in the late 18th...
Islands are a chain ofislands and a district of the Bahamas, covering about thirty square miles (78 km2) of the northwestern part of the Out Islands...