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Full-Text Articles in African History
“Fighting For La Veloz Passagera”: Abolition And The Spanish Slave Trade, Jessica Smith
“Fighting For La Veloz Passagera”: Abolition And The Spanish Slave Trade, Jessica Smith
The Forum: Journal of History
No abstract provided.
Captured At The Cape: The Enslaved Africans Aboard Bom Caminho, Gracie L. Edler
Captured At The Cape: The Enslaved Africans Aboard Bom Caminho, Gracie L. Edler
The Forum: Journal of History
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Freedom’S Paradoxes: A Case Study Of The Slave Schooner Julita, Lucy Wickstrom
Freedom’S Paradoxes: A Case Study Of The Slave Schooner Julita, Lucy Wickstrom
The Forum: Journal of History
After Great Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, the British Royal Navy committed one-fifth of its manpower to the cause of capturing other nations’ illegal slave ships. This effort to enforce abolition liberated 250,000 displaced Africans over the course of the nineteenth century and brought the crews that had carried them before officials to have their cases tried. Because of the careful documentation of these cases by the Mixed Commissions, there is a wealth of primary sources detailing the circumstances of these captures and the human beings claimed as cargo. This paper utilizes a case study of one such …