Slavery and The British Empire
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Slavery in America
The History of Slavery in America From the beginnings of slavery in British North America around 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 enslaved Africans to the Virginia colony at Jamestown, nearly 240 years passed until the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery in 1865. This section of the site is devoted to an in-depth investigation of those years from many angles; from looking at the lives and cultures of the oppressed before they were enslaved, to understanding the ways in which those enslaved survived and ultimately triumphed over the institution of slavery.
BBC - History: Abolition
For more than 200 years Britain was at the heart of a lucrative transatlantic trade in millions of enslaved Africans.This was the first campaign of its kind generating and sustaining a national movement which caught the public’s imagination as never before.
