SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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A half
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An eighth
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A third
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A sixth
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Detailed explanation-1: -Typical slave ships contained several hundred slaves with about 30 crew members. The male captives were normally chained together in pairs to save space; right leg to the next man’s left leg-while the women and children may have had somewhat more room.
Detailed explanation-2: -Legally ("de jure") slave owners could not win in court, and abolitionists provided legal help for enslaved black people. However actual ("de facto") slavery continued in Britain with ten to fourteen thousand slaves in England and Wales, who were mostly domestic servants.
Detailed explanation-3: -Operating the British transatlantic slave trade, 1680–1807 By 1770 British traders were trafficking roughly 42, 000 enslaved Africans across the Atlantic every year.
Detailed explanation-4: -Historians estimate that more than 20, 000 runaway slaves joined the British during the American Revolution. The experiences of the “Black Loyalists” represent the largest exodus of North America slaves before the Civil War.