HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Royal African Company, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, Barracoon
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Week 6, lecture 6 hisa04 themes in world history wed 17th oct 2012. Sweetness and power representations exploring the slave trade and the. Majority of european trade posts created were heavily fortified, especially ones that contained slaves. Slave barracoon, sierra leone, 1840s: where slaves were kept before being put on ships. Unsuccessful in selling slaves to an english captain, so sold slaves to an african. Sold slaves, and sending them off to americas. On way home, he was captured and sold to the english captain of whom he failed. Worked on a tobacco farm for about a year. Advantage set him above of other slaves trained in an islamic education, so he slaver. to sell slaves to. could read and write. Caught the attention of an englishman; he helped ayuba escape the plantation, which he had before but unsuccessfully. He then escaped to britain and worked for royal african company that traded slave.
