Tag atlantic world

February 27, 2014
in African American Studies, American History, History, Social Science

Abolitionism, Yellow Fever, and the Legacy of Slavery: Excerpt from Ship of Death

February 27, 2014
in African American Studies, American History, History, Social Science

In 1792, the Hankey left Britain full of abolitionists who hoped to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. Botched negotiations with local tribes and the failure of the colony sent the Hankey on a trip around the Atlantic with a terrible infestation of Yellow Fever. Billy Smith

July 29, 2011
in African American Studies, Economics, History, Literature, Social Science

Mapping a Great Crime Against Humanity

July 29, 2011
in African American Studies, Economics, History, Literature, Social Science

The information compiled in the R.R. Hawkins Award-winning Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, edited by David Eltis and David Richardson documents, in nearly 200 color maps, the paths of Europeans, Africans, merchants, slaves, and human life, showing how and when so many people went from port to port, hub to hub, as the many regions developed and evolved over the history of the slave trade.