Interview with Kevin Bales, 2001 No industry depends on slavery in the way that the plantations did in the times of the Atlantic slave trade ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade ... now engage in the trade. The Company did not fare well ...

If any slave resists his master. . . correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such ... The first Virginia colonists did not even think of themselves as "white" or use that word ...

However, while the act abolished the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, it did not abolish slavery, which still continued for decades. The abolition followed powerful and sustained acts of ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro ... During the war he did not want to upset the cabinet ministers that were mostly against abolition.