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For the most part, Britain did not participate in the slave trade till the mid-1600s

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They started the slave trade between Europe and Africa when a Portuguese captain kidnapped 10 African people

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By the start of the 18th century, the British were in fierce competition with the Dutch and French for supremacy in the West African slave trade

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France joined the trade to exploit their resources of their caribbean colonies

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France joined the trade to exploit their resources of their caribbean colonies

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the french needed workers so they seized dutch trading posts on the west african coast

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The Portuguese built forts to protect their trading stations from rival European traders

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They made sugar plantations to trade for African gold and kidnapped Africans to work at the sugar plantations

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John Hawkins was one of the early pioneers in the transatlantic trade in Africans people

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John Hawkins was one of the early pioneers in the transatlantic trade in Africans people

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Portugal was responsible for 40% of all transatlantic trade of the African people

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Slaves were initially obtained by the Portuguese for work on Atlantic African island plantations, and subsequently for plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean, however a small number were transferred to Europe.

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Britain was responsible for transporting millions of enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas, where men, women and children were forced to work on plantations and denied basic rights.

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Britain was responsible for transporting millions of enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas, where men, women and children were forced to work on plantations and denied basic rights.

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In 1942, Christopher Columbus claimed the Caribbean island of Hispaniola , which is now Haiti and the DR. Columbus exploited the indigenous people (Tainos people) and wanted them to work as labourers to search for gold.

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Portugal were one of the first countries to abolish slavery in 1761 but continued to enslave Brazil until 1888

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There were over 50 slavery markets in Portugal's capital by the mid-1500s

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The french were the third largest slave traders

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Between 1640 and 1807 Britain was the most dominant and was estimated to have transported 3.1 million africans to the british colonies in the Caribbean and other countries.

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Between 1540 and the mid-1800s, 1.6 millions enslaved Africans were shipped to the Caribbean colonies of Martinique, St.Christopher, Guadeloupe, and Saint Domingue (which is not Haiti).

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Not only did Portuguese traders get captives for sale, but they also obtained numerous West African goods such as ivory, peppers, textiles, wax, grain, and copper.

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When the local population went down, they had a shortage of workers for the mines and plantations. So, they went to Africa.

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The first enslaved African was a young boy named Olivier LeJeune in New France (now Quebec)

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In the 1600s, Europeans came to Brazil and brought many diseases that killed thousands of Indigenous Peoples

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After the end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade , Portugal continued to enslave people in Brazil for over 80 years

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Oliver arrived in 1628 and become a servant to Father Paul LeJeune

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The majority of enslaved Africans, enslaved by Portugal, went to plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean

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New slaves were African and came from the French colonies in the Carribean

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An agreement was made between Britain and Spain to send blacks from the Spanish colony of Cuba to British possessions.

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By 1759, there were 1132 enslaved Africans living in new France.

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There’s about 8 million people in Africa that speak Portuguese

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They worked as domestic servant (maybe implying their skin colour) for seigneurs, government officials and merchants

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They worked as domestic servant (maybe implying their skin colour) for seigneurs, government officials and merchants

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The Dutch; who are Netherlanders and originate from northern Europe, were late to become slave owners and slave traders in the Transatlantic slave trade of African peoples

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When Britain gained control, in 1760, they agreed the slaves would remain enslaved under British rule.

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Anti-slavery campaigners lobbied for twenty years to end the trade and the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain on 25 March 1807. 

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Anti-slavery campaigners lobbied for twenty years to end the trade and the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain on 25 March 1807. 

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Although Britain transported around 3.1 million enslaved Africans, only around 2.7 million arrived at their destination because of deaths while travelling between Africa and America.

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When the Dutch started settling in Africa to trade slaves in the 1600s, they would often come across the Portuguese and conflict against each other--which they would always prevail in

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they relied on its shipbuilding industry in British North America to build many of the ships it used to transport African peoples across the Atlantic.

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The British Army and Royal Navy owned and hired slaves as labourers and soldiers. Most of them went to the Corps of Military Labourers.

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shipped off africans to their colonizers countries

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shipped off africans to their colonizers countries

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Spain had no way of trading so the would sell asientos (which is basically contracts between Spain and another company or individual to give them the ability to sell slaves to be under Spain's control). Winning bidders of the contract would gain the ability to sell African slaves into slavery through the Spanish Empire.

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1,165,000 people who made it over the Middle Passage encountered difficult circumstances, especially in French Caribbean colonies.

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An estimated 5.8 million Africans were transported into slavery on Portuguese ships.

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for the next 100 years, the dutch shipped africans to their colonies in portuguese Brazil, caribbean and suriname

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In Canada later on, the slaves were Aboriginal originally then there was African.

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In Canada later on, the slaves were Aboriginal originally then there was African.

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The impact of this trade is still evident today. Salted cod, or saltfish, is the national dish of jamaica.

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When the Dutch joined the slave trade movement, they eventually replaced Portugal in becoming the dominant save-trading-nation; and for the next 100 years, they shipped African peoples to slave colonies in (then) Portuguese Brazil, the Caribbean and Suriname (which is located in South America)

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Spanish America was the largest and most populous European imperial dominion in the New World until at least 1810, reaching eventually from California to Buenos Aires.

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The first French slave trading voyages date to the second half of the 16th century, when French merchants sought to turn a personal profit from the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Africans from many different cultures were forced to perform intense work and carry heavy items such as barrels for very long distances.

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Portugal transported 4.8 million Africans to Brazil and sold them as slaves, for over three centuries. The other 670 thousand died on the way.

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Canada is rather linked with slavery through international trades

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Between 1520 and 1867, an estimated 1,506,000 enslaved Africans landed in the Spanish Americas straight from Africa.

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An estimated 5.8 million Africans were transported into slavery on Portuguese ships.

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The Caribbean French colonies were more popular and productive than the British and Spanish possessions there, and ships centred in many important French port towns made it all possible.

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In contrast, during the period of the illegal slave trade in the 19th century, a growing number of ships flying the French flag sailed from the Antilles and even from Brazil.

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https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/black-enslavement

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Black Enslavement in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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History, politics, arts, science & more: the Canadian Encyclopedia is your reference on Canada. Articles, timelines & resources for teachers, students & public.

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In 1850 Brazil outlawed the slave trade but slavery continued to be legal and the smuggling of Africans into Brazil continued for several more decades

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Under Spanish law, enslaved individuals were granted more protections and privileges compared to other places but Spanish slave owners would violate these rights, though they were upheld sometimes.

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they are the first to import africans to their colonies in portugal, brazil, the caribbean and the suriname.

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they are the first to import africans to their colonies in portugal, brazil, the caribbean and the suriname.

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The first african arrived in british north america as captives in 1619.
they worked alongside indentured servants. but they never clarified that they were slaves.

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around the 1470s spanish merchants started selling slaves at a vary high rate, they were auctioned of at markets at a cathedral they were eventually transported and sold to places like Moorish, African, and Christian slavery in Spain.

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The Dutch were the first to bring slaves to North America. They were the first to import African slaves to the then "New World" on behalf of their colony of New Amsterdam (which is no longer called that after the British overruled it in 1664 and renamed it "New York")

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In 1887, the Catholic Church "ended" its support of slavery in Brazil, and after that the Portuguese Crown began to position itself against it.

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 slavery and trade in african people in British North America

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 slavery and trade in african people in British North America

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in 1780,there was around 5000 Black people lived in British north American and about in 1800 were enslaved Africans.the province we know as Ontario ,the governor that was in power in 1793,then made a law making it illegal to bring enslaved africans into the colony .so the're was still slaves that remained enslaved until slavery was banned throughout the British Empire i the 19th Century.

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However, until the start of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue, the jewel in the crown of France, remained the main destination for African survivors.

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On May 13, 1888, slavery was abolished in Brazil, in all it forms, the "Lei Áurea" (Golden Law), being that one of the most important pieces of legislation in Brazilian history.

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Black slaves were acquired through private sales and

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In the colony of New Amsterdam, the slaves owned by the Dutch built the houses there, they made the roads and they raised the defense walls in the New World. Famous buildings like the New York Financial Centre and the Wall Street, were named after a long wooden wall built by these slaves living in New Amsterdam

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Blacks and Indigenous slaves were gifted from indigenous allies to French Colonies.

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May 1 1689, King Louis XIV officially authorized the importation of enslaved Black people to New France ( Quebec)

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By 1675 slavery was well established, and by 1700 slaves had almost entirely replaced indentured servants.

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Olivier served the Couillard household for approximately 26 years under the domestique status.

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The majority of Africans sold into slavery in the 17th century were bought in the Senegambia region, where the French established trading ports in the Bight of Benin, on the Island of Gorée, and at Saint-Louis in Senegal. French captains began buying slaves in central West Africa in the first quarter of the 18th century, but it wasn't until the second half of the century that the Loango coast became the main port of departure for French slave ships. It was replaced by the Bight of Biafra and Sierra Leone in the 19th century.

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Slavery was abolished in 1834 but in reality for many of those enslaved it continued until at least 1838 through apprenticeship schemes.

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Slavery was abolished in 1834 but in reality for many of those enslaved it continued until at least 1838 through apprenticeship schemes.

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After slavery was formally abolished as a legal institution in Brazil, the government implemented a policy of branqueamento, or "whitening", a state-sponsored attempt to "improve the bloodline" through immigration, which made Brazil accept only white Europeans or Asian immigrants into the country.

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Privateers had seized them from a slave ship bound for mexico and traded them in Virginia

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After slavery was abolished in Brazil, many freed slaves, which didn't have a place to go and no other way to earn a living, entered into informal agreements with their former owners. These amounted to food and shelter in exchange for free labor.

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Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa, having become independent from Spain on October 12, 1968

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In the 13 mainland colonies of British North America, slavery was not the peculiar institution of the South. This development would occur after the American Revolution and during the first decades of the 19th century.

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In the 13 mainland colonies of British North America, slavery was not the peculiar institution of the South. This development would occur after the American Revolution and during the first decades of the 19th century.

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The slaves who arrived in the colony would become Company slaves (meaning they were sold to work as well help build and manage early European companies and early businesses) or if they couldn't; were sold to local farmers or merchants. At times, some slaves would often be transported to other colonies like Virginia or Maryland (early "New World," present-day United States). On a number of occasions, the Company (which the slaves worked for) sold slaves at public auction (like animals for display in a zoo). These auctions usually occurred in New Amsterdam, but in 1659 a public slave selling took place in even Beverwijck [beever * widge * kuh] (present-day Albany [New York]). Dutch Netherlands' slaveholders often resold their slaves outside of the public auctions, which led to additional exchanges of enslaved people in the colony

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The enslaved men, women, and children who arrived in New Amsterdam (a colony of Dutch Netherlands) came from a variety of African backgrounds (because of how easy it was to <buy> an African slave all throughout Africa), but a large majority of them were of Central African origins. Dutch merchants had established trade relations along the West Central African coasts, and Dutch control of Luanda (in present-day Angola) from 1641 to 1648 further promoted Dutch trade with this Central African region