English Empire

Encyclopaedia Africana S November 22, 2020 SLAVE CODES: SLAVERY LEGISLATION IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH EMPIRES

What emerged from the articles of the Barbadian Code was, in conclusion, a system of regulation of slavery designed to control the entire workforce, built on the conviction that primitives and barbarian Africans were naturally destined to be slaves because of their inferiority from a cultural and racial point of view.

B Encyclopaedia Africana November 22, 2020 THE BARBADOS SLAVE CODE – An analysis

Legally sanctioned sheer brutality was necessary to maintain a regime where men, women and children were worked to death like beasts of burden.

Encyclopaedia Africana R October 9, 2020 ROYAL CHARTER OF THE AFRICA COMPANY

Charter allowing for the capture, kidnap and enslavement of Africans and the commitment to England’s role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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