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	ipedia.com: Slavery Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The African slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured in West Africa and shipped to the colonies of the New World (triangular trade).
		Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease.
		In 1827 Britain declared that particiption in the slave trade was piracy and punishable by death.
	www.ipedia.com /slavery.html (6122 words)

	Ireland \| Faith, Hope and Charity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The slave trade from East Africa to Arabia was dominated by Arab and African traders in the coastal cities of Zanzibar, Dar Es Salaam and Mombasa.
		Slave children apparently enjoyed some authoritative protection, as a letter from the 18th dynasty records limits to their use for harsh labor, and Egyptian households further bore the responsibility of adequately raising children of slave parents.
		The transatlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured on raiding expeditions into the interior of West Africa.
	www.freewebs.com /patrick-j-gallagher/slavery.htm (10735 words)

	sociology - Slavery
		Slave catching and slave trade was one of the main occupations of the Vikings.
		The transatlantic slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured in West Africa and shipped to the colonies of the New World (triangular trade).
		In 1827 Britain declared that participation in the slave trade was piracy and punishable by death.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Slavery (7955 words)

	Slavery
		Using one's unmarried slaves as sexual concubines (a form of sexual slavery) was still permitted, however; as is obvious from the imperial Abbasid harem, which was populated by dozens or even hundreds of slave-girls.
		Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease.
		In 1827 Britain declared that particiption in the slave trade was piracy and punishable by death.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/s/sl/slavery.html (5887 words)

	The Atlantic Slave Trade
		The history of the Atlantic slave trade could be characterised as the first bloody essay into globalisation.
		The racist ideologies of the early 19th century were thus rooted in the slave trade and in turn materially affected the fate of Africans everywhere.
		It empowered regimes brutal enough to extort taxes or slaves from their neighbours and engendered the spread of domestic slavery as increasing numbers of people were needed to grow crops to feed those slaves awaiting export.
	www.nathanielturner.com /atlanticslavetrade.htm (907 words)

	Slave Castles
		The slave trade was a later addition to the commercial trade in gold, ivory and other local commodities in exchange for European merchandise.
		The Slave Trade is said to have began in the country round about 1480 when Europeans at Elmina sold slaves to African traders who wanted porters.
		Hence the Portuguese who started the slave trade were followed in quick succession by the Dutch, English, French, Swedish, Danish and the Brandenburgers, who came to the Gold Coast and built castles and forts and competed seriously in the trade.
	www.theviproom.com /visions/slave.htm (1129 words)

	Trade and culture
		In the eighth and ninth centuries silversmiths in the forts and trading settlements of Poland and Pomerania were greatly influenced by styles and fashions from the lands along the Danube and from Moravia.
		The slave trade and the fur trade were by far the most profitable in north-south and east-west trade.
		Some trading settlements, as well as some trade and craft centers located outside forts which had emerged in the interior in the ninth to tenth centuries, formed the nuclei of medieval towns.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/02trade.html (1446 words)

	History Slave Trade
		Ivor Wilks, a leading historian of Ghana, observed that Akan purchases of slaves from Portuguese traders operating from the Congo region augmented the labor needed for the state formation that was characteristic of this period.
		The volume of the slave trade in West Africa grew rapidly from its inception around 1500 to its peak in the eighteenth century.
		The demographic impact of the slave trade on West Africa was probably substantially greater than the number actually enslaved because a significant number of Africans perished during slaving raids or while in captivity awaiting transshipment.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/history/slave-trade.php (1368 words)

	Swedish slave trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swedish Vikings travelled east into Gardariki, and were known to have traded extensively in slaves.
		The Swedish slave trade in Africa was always insignificant, and when the Swedish colony in North America, New Sweden, was taken over by the Dutch in 1655, the conditions for the trade disappeared.
		In 1788, the English Committee for the Abolition of Slavery sent a Swedish opponent of the slave trade, Anders Sparrman, to Gustav III.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedish_slave_trade (1215 words)

	Slavery: Modern Slavery: Debt Bondage & Slave Exploitation - Downbound.com
		In all countries, people in many occupations are contracted for a period of years, but they are usually paid on a regular basis, are rarely contracted until a debt is paid, and are rarely sold into that status by their parents or others.
		The trade was run by the Moors and the expeditions were captained by Europeans with North African crews.
		Many of the slaves were unable to reproduce because of the stress of the work often caused still births in women and made the men sterile.
	www.downbound.com /category_s/29.htm (4212 words)

	African Bullets & Honey: Is my cucu's cucu guilty of participating in the slave trade? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Hi from what i know and heard, east africa traded slaves with the arab world and the middlemen or merchants were actually somalis not kenyans.
		What I find is that the countries that started the Slave Trade, where nations were raided sepcifically for slaves, always try to blame Afrikans for their pariticpation in the slave trade in an attempt to abscond from taking repsonsibility for their HEINOUS acts.
		Whenever the issue of the slave trade is raised, some people from slave-owing nations tend to immediately say that 1) Africans were participating in slavery before the trans-atlantic slave trade or 2) Africans were the main slave raiders anyway.
	bulletsandhoney.blogspot.com /2006/01/is-my-cucus-cucu-guilty-of.html (2215 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Historically, slaves were often those humans of a different ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex or race than the dominant or aspirationally dominant group; typically taken prisoner as a result of warfare, capture meant death or slavery if one paid no ransom.
		The Lesser Antilles islands of Barbados, Antigua, Martinique and Guadeloupe, which were the first important slave societies of the Caribbean, began the widespread use of African slaves by the end of the 17th century, as their economies converted from tobacco to sugar production.
		The shift from indentured servants to African slaves was prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competitors of their former masters.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/slavery (7201 words)

	Cape Coast Journal: Slave trade city
		These fortresses were at first built to protect their gold and ivory trade, but later slave trade took over as the most lucrative business.
		Slaves were brought from the continent over to the coast (by means of slave raids organized by slave merchants), and then kept in the forts' dungeons for a few months in horrible, inhumane conditions.
		A third of the slaves were brought to Brazil, another third was brought to the Caribbean and the last third went to the United States and a bit to the rest of the Americas.
	realtravel.com /cape_coast-journals-j1212387.html (645 words)

	Slavery's Living Legacy
		The slave merchants resident in Goree included both the sons of the business elite of
		Enslaved Africans not employed to cultivate crops or service the slave caravans coming from the east into Goree were fated to be exported across the
		The final charge to be laid against the Atlantic slave trade is its impact on
	afgen.com /slavery6.html (848 words)

	Captive Passage - Arrival: Life in the Americas
		Brazil was by far the largest single participant in the traffic of African slaves accounting for 41 percent of the total.
		The United States became the leading user of slave labor in the New World, not because it participated heavily in the slave trade, but because of the unusually high rate of natural increase.
		Despite its peripheral role in the Atlantic slave trade, the size of its slave population and success of its plantation system during the three decades preceding the Civil War made the South the greatest center of slavery in the new world and the bulwark of resistance to its abolition.
	www.mariner.org /captivepassage/arrival/arr004.html (402 words)

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