HIST191 Lecture : HIST191 Special Topics in History - Abolition.pdf
30 Apr 2014
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John newton - wrote amazing grace when he was on a slave ship from europe to north. He didn"t immediately give up the slave trade, but eventually he considered. Slavery a sin, and became an anglican minister ghting agaisnt the slave trade. The two institutions that were most abiding in history were family, the slave trade. With only a handful of effective leaders against the slave trade - names* What they were turning from, then what they were turning to. There were muslim slaves who were captured and carried over from the middle east. There were african slaves who came up the suez canal, the nile, the sahara. 1000ad - the chief source of slaves were slavic people, from above the black sea. Our modern word for slave comes from the latin. They gave the name to the group most associated with. One of the things the europenas learned from the muslims was the cultivation of sugar.
