HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William Cobbett, Moses Roper, Free Soil Party
4 Apr 2013
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There was no slavery in the british empire after 1834 so they were taken to the bahamas (british territory). Spain: 1845 (possession of slaves was still legal, but trading was outlawed) (trade did not really stop could be illegally bought from countries where it wasn"t outlawed, or from black market) Undersatnd the different processes involved in the abolition of slavery and slave trade: legal, religious, intellectual, humanitarian, economic, and parliamentary processes. Appreciate the global dimensions of the story of abolitionism. African slavery did not start because they were dominated It started because the africans were militarily powerful. Between 1440 and 1480, portuguese were trying to navigate around africa (new currents and stuff). They started planting sugarcane in the canary islands near africa. Around this time, they started setting up outposts on coasts of africa. They would bring goods to the africans in exchange for land to create sugarcane plantation.
