HIST 1003 Chapter : Questions For Captive And Amazing Grace
Document Summary
Questions for lisa lindsay, captives and commodities, and the film amazing grace . Captives and commodities is a good companion to amazing grace. the film, starring ioan. Gruffud, romola garai, and benedict cumberbatch, is the story of william wilberforce, the members of parliament (mp) who led the fight to abolish the slave trade in britain. He succeeded in 1808, and the united states outlawed the slave trade that same year. From that question come others: the portuguese were involved in the slave trade long before anyone else. 1600s, the dutch replaced the portuguese as the principal slave traders. A voyage of discoveries led portuguese explorers to make contact with west. In 1497-98, a portuguese expedition led by vasco de gama sailed around africa and reached india: in 1500 a portuguese, expedition to india swung wide to the west to catch the. Winds and did not make it to india, but on the eastern coast of south.
