Migration has captured global attention, but in the past millions of Indians were shipped out to work in various European ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... a new race-based slavery system developed, and by the dawn of the new century, the majority of ...

the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1807. The Act made it illegal to buy and sell enslaved people throughout the British colonies. However, while the act ...

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...

As a result, the heads of many former colonies ... the monarchy or British government from the past," Moffett adds. Reparations "could change the destiny of the descendants of slavery in the ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme oppression and violence. But slavery was not just about labor and the ...

Each country with a colonial past deals with it in a ... He then emphasizes the reality: “In the 18th century, [the British] were the largest slave traffickers in the world.” ...

As the British Empire was about to outlaw slavery, the supply of free labour for the plantations in her colonies began to diminish. In response, a new system akin to slavery emerged in the Indian ...