Slavery

Triangular trade, or triangle trade, is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. Triangular trade thus provides a method for rectifying trade imbalances between these regions. Atlantic triangular slave […]

This movie begins with Joseph Cinqué (whose true name was Sengbe Pieh), an African on the schooner La Amistad, leading a revolt that frees the other Africans and kills most of the crew. They force the ship’s captain to steer back to Africa, but the captain tricks them and heads to the United States where […]

Although the North held a contemptuous view of slavery, it was neither sympathetic nor supportive of the blacks. The predominant view in the North was: 1) the blacks were an inferior race, 2) it is the duty of the whites to educate them, 3) political authority belonged solely to the whites, and 4) slavery was […]