The Longest Memory Background

Slavery in America 1619 – 1865

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Most slaves came from the west coast of Africa, so many in fact, that this area was referred to by Europeans as the Slave Coast. The slave coast stretches along modern day Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Benin, The Gambia, Congo, Gabon and Angola.

No one knows the exact number of slaves that were taken from Africa. Philip Curtin in 1969 calculated that about 10 million slaves were taken from Africa. Many Historians refer to this as the Black Holocaust. It is a tragedy for Africa that few still know little about.

Conditions on board the slave vessels in the trip across the Atlantic were appalling. 2 in 10 Africans died in the voyage over.

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Life for slaves was one of unremitting labour

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Education? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Frederick Douglas, an escaped slave who learn to read and write, published his famous autobiography, Douglass' best-known work is his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which was published in 1845

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