trans-Atlantic slave trade

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/trans-Atlantic_slave_trade

GPTKB entity

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:abolished	gptkb:Brazil gptkb:Britain gptkb:Denmark gptkb:France gptkb:Netherlands gptkb:Portugal gptkb:Spain gptkb:Sweden gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Atlantic_slave_trade
gptkbp:beganIn	15th century
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	gptkb:International_Day_of_Remembrance_of_the_Victims_of_Slavery_and_the_Transatlantic_Slave_Trade
gptkbp:endDate	19th century
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	trans-Atlantic slave trade
gptkbp:involves	gptkb:Africa gptkb:Americas gptkb:Brazil gptkb:Caribbean gptkb:Central_Africa gptkb:Europe gptkb:West_Africa gptkb:British_North_America gptkb:Portuguese_colonies gptkb:Spanish_America gptkb:French_colonies gptkb:British_colonies Dutch colonies
gptkbp:legislature	gptkb:Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves_1807 gptkb:Slave_Trade_Act_1807 gptkb:Abolition_of_the_Slave_Trade_Act_1807 Portuguese abolition law 1836 Spanish Royal Decree of 1817
gptkbp:mainCargo	enslaved Africans
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Middle_Passage
gptkbp:notableShip	gptkb:Brookes_slave_ship
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:slave_codes gptkb:colonialism gptkb:racism abolitionism plantation economy chattel slavery slave rebellions
gptkbp:resultedIn	gptkb:African_diaspora economic growth in Europe racial slavery in Americas devastation of African societies
gptkbp:route	gptkb:triangular_trade
gptkbp:UNESCOProject	The Slave Route Project
gptkbp:victim	over 12 million
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Cape_Coast_Castle,_Gold_Coast_(now_Ghana) gptkb:Colonial_Forts_of_Ghana
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7