A Solution to Slavery or Racist Expulsion?
For Americans grappling with the contradictions of slavery, colonization provided a seemingly benevolent and ethical solution without granting African Americans full equality.
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“The Slave That Reads Is The First To Run Away”
1760-1800 Sancho, Ignatius, 1729-1780. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. London: J. Nichols, 1782. [Link to Volume Two] Equiano, Olaudah, 1745?-1797. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. (2 vols.) London: The Author, 1789. 1800-1860 Brinch,… MORE
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Instead, we focus on two trans-Pacific trade routes in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries: the galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco and maritime fur trade between the Pacific Northwest and China. These trade routes moved goods, but also peoples, cultures, and ideas across and throughout the Pacific.