Migration has captured global attention, but in the past millions of Indians were shipped out to work in various European ...

the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807. The Act made it illegal to buy and sell enslaved people throughout the British colonies. However, while the act ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... a new race-based slavery system developed, and by the dawn of the new century, the majority of ...

As the British Empire was about to outlaw slavery, the supply of free labour for the plantations in her colonies began to diminish. In response, a new system akin to slavery emerged in the Indian ...

More Britons are sure that colonies in Africa are worse off ... Estimates of the likely reparations bill for British involvement in slavery in 14 countries range from £206 billion to a staggering ...

As a result, the heads of many former colonies ... the monarchy or British government from the past," Moffett adds. Reparations "could change the destiny of the descendants of slavery in the ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme oppression and violence. But slavery was not just about labor and the ...

Therefore, as a first step and a first contribution, this research project is based on a new and crucial comparative perspective including Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Southern United ...

Each country with a colonial past deals with it in a ... He then emphasizes the reality: “In the 18th century, [the British] were the largest slave traffickers in the world.” ...

African and African-descended women appear fleetingly and anonymously as musicians and listeners in physical sources created during slavery, what we might call the traditional historical record. When ...