Jamestown - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:13:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Jamestown - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Slave trafficking in the East https://historylab.es/slave-trafficking-in-the-east/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slave-trafficking-in-the-east Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000 https://historylab.es/slave-trafficking-in-the-east/ Slave trips to the East.

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]]> It has been 400 years since the Dutch White Lion boat docked in the city of Jamestown, in the USA. Inside it traveled 20 Africans – won during a naval battle against the Spaniards – whom the Dutch intended to exchange on American soil for food and provisions. This event of 1619 led to a systematic trafficking of human beings, such as slaves, known as the Atlantic trade or triangular trade, which took place until the 19th century.

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]]> The slave routes: from sub-Saharan Africa to Mediterranean Africa https://historylab.es/the-slave-routes-from-sub-saharan-africa-to-mediterranean-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-slave-routes-from-sub-saharan-africa-to-mediterranean-africa Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-slave-routes-from-sub-saharan-africa-to-mediterranean-africa/ The Atlantic passage.

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]]> In 1619, 400 years ago, the Dutch boat White Lion docked on the coasts of the United States, more precisely in Virginia in the city of Jamestown. The Dutch had captured the precious cargo, which they would have exchanged on American land for food and supplies, during a naval battle with the Spaniards They had won 20 Africans, previously enslaved to the Spaniards, who would work as contract servants for a certain period of time, before being released and obtaining a piece of land – mostly infertile – to cultivate.

This event gradually led to the trafficking of African men and women known as the Atlantic trade. Initially contract servants, as well as the Irish, Scots, British and Germans who paid for their crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by serving in the same way, they would soon become human commodities, indelibly marking history.

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