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Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship
South American natives enslaved in Spanish mines; and indentured servants shipped from Europe. Slave ships were perfect prizes for pirates: easy to maneuver, unusually fast, and armed ... seamen, free black men, political dissidents, escaped slaves, indentured servants, Africans freed from slave ships taken at sea, Native Americans, and runaway plantation workers. Exhibition Schedule Philadelphia: ...
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National Geographic: Pirates of the Whydah
Lawrence Prince. Named for the ... , designed to clear decks of defenders but not to damage ships. The pirates, it seems, preferred close-quarters fighting with antipersonnel ... Most of them were former slaves," he says. "The pirates would raid slave ships and offer male slaves their choice: Join the pirate ranks ...
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New-age Gaia Nonsense
They can 'talk' to each other across whole oceans (or they could until our noisy ships started trading vast quantities of consumer baubles all over the place). They don't have ... attitudes of people doing research on animals now is the same as that of the slave owners then, and remember, there are more slaves in the world now than there were ...
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Pirate Utopias (Do or Die)
Atlantic slave trade. The relationship between piracy and the slave trade is complex and ambiguous. Some pirates participated in the slave trade ... slave trade. Indeed large numbers of pirates were ex-slaves; there was a much higher proportion of blacks on pirate ships than ... the heart of Empire in London, to the slave colonies in the Americas and the 'Slave Coast' of Africa. In the early 1720s ...
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English and Roman Plumbing History
He would stand in the tub, and have a slave douse him with water over his head and his body. The ... his favorite spectator sports was watching actual battles between opposing fleets of ships, manned by criminals and slaves of the emperors. By Nero's ... . The "Bramah" also became a prototype for closets on boats and ships. The Good Life: In 1848, England passed the national Public Health Act ...
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Eugene Weekly : 02.24.05
Persian Gulf, enjoying air-conditioned comfort while launching cruise missiles into neighborhoods filled ... lost on the Middle Passage, and of those whose very flesh was sold in the slave market outside the human kennel from whence Wall Street takes its name. And of coolie ...
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going coastal | a maritime history of new york (wpa project)
... colonists, pirates and privateers, the armies of two great nations, smugglers and slave-traders, captains of ocean packets and clipper ships, towboat- and longshoremen, the adventurers and seafarers of all nations throng ... a complete record of its founding, its growth and present greatness, a chronicle of famous ships and famous men, a record of the manifold activities of a gigantic center of ...
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IMPACT Press Feb. - Mar. '05: The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery & Human Rights
Half died before they reached the ships and more expired during the torturous six to ten week journey across the Atlantic to North America. The slave traders confined their human cargo to ... adequate rest. Rather, they demanded the total and unqualified eradication of the master-slave relation, the freeing of the slave from all forms of bondage. Similarly, the new abolitionists reject reforms of ...
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IMPACT Press Dec. '04 - Jan. '05: Column - Over-Priced Musings
... exodus. The defenders of these offshoring practices will tell you that by employing foreigners for slave wages, they're helping the American economy by freeing up our Information Technology work so ... for the Slippery Slope of Christianity Pain and the Human Race Satellite Tracking Moves to Ships
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Slave Trade in North Africa 1818-20: Lyon's Narrative of Travels
Sockna, Hoon, and Wadan A desert journey with a slave kaffle Description of the Tuareg people Slaves, again Articles of ... . And of the Tibboo people Slaves, yet again Still more about slavery Traveling with a slave kaffle once more Remarks about the desert ships sail about with great lanterns attached to them. They also ...
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