John R. Jewitt
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John Rodgers Jewitt was an English armourer who entered the historical record with his memoirs about the 28 months he spent as an enslaved captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth people on what is n
The ship Boston taken by the savages at Nootka Sound
History of slavery
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The history of slavery spans many different cultures, tribes, nationalities and religions from ancient periods to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and r
John R. Jewitt
…Women in general were modest, but female slaves were used for sex. Jewitt describes their methods of fishing, trapping bears, and trading (including slave trading). He writes about their weapons, and how they made and managed their huge dugout canoes. Jewitt introduced a new sort of harpoon, enabling more successful…
Slaves in chains during the period of Roman rule at Smyrna (present-day İzmir), 200 AD.
13th century slave market in Yemen.
Arab slave-trading caravan transporting Sub-Saharan African slaves across the Sahara, 19th-century engraving
Black slave, Ptolemaic Egypt, 2nd/1st century BC.