Slave ship it was the name by which the boat that transported blacks destined for slave labor on the American continent between the 16th and 19th centuries became known. The first recorded shipment of enslaved Africans took place in 1525 and the last in 1866. Slave Traffic Until the beginning of t
The Bill Aberdeen Act was enacted on August 8, 1845 by England prohibiting the African slave trade. In this way, the British navy pursued, intercepted and imprisoned the slave ships that transported slaves across the South Atlantic. Once the boat was captured, the slaves were returned to Africa an
The “Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha ” or “Letter to King Dom Manoel on the discovery of Brazil ” was a document written by Portuguese scribe Pero Vaz de Caminha. Written on May 1, 1500, in Porto Seguro, Bahia, it was taken to Lisbon under the care of Gaspar de Lemos, considered one of the greatest n
On July 26, 1533, the last ruler of the Inca empire, Atahualpa, was executed by the Spanish with a garrote (device used to strangle prisoners). His death meant the end of the great Inca empire and the beginning of the Spanish conquest of that region of South America. Only a year before, Atahualpa ha