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How Enslaved Persons Were Examined Prior to Purchase Within Europe, the Number of Enslaved Persons and the Length of Time the English Government Perpetuated Slavery, the Reason Slave Trading Facilities Had Specialized Segregated Rooms, the Year the State Government of Virginia, United States of America Legislated Slavery to Become Hereditary, the Stipulation of Hereditary Slavery Within the Virginia Slave Law of 1662 Legislation, the Virginia Slave Law of 1662 Impacting the Defensive Weapons Enslaved Persons Were Permitted to Carry, an Example of the Institutionalized Bias Against Enslaved Persons Within the U.S. During the 17th Century, the Impact of Virginia’s 1669 Act I Legislation Upon Enslaved Persons, the Reason Virginia’s 1669 Act I Legislation Was Created, the Concept of “Slave Codes”, the Reason the English Government Developing Dual Legal Systems Which Conflicted With Eachother, the View of Freedom and Protection Within the Common Law Regions of the English Empire During the 18th Century vs the View of Freedom and Protection Within the Colonies of the English Empire During the 18th Century, Enslaved Persons Purchased and Sold Within English Ports, the Ambiguity of the Legal Status of Enslaved Persons During the Period of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Person Who Attempted to Kill Barbados Slave/Servant Jonathan Strong in 1765, the Person Who Discovered Strong and Helped Him Recover, the Abduction and Sale of Strong, the Person Strong Appealed to and the Person Who Helped Strong Defend His Legal Case to Escape Slavery, the Argument English Civil Servant Granville Sharp Made On Behalf of Strong, Sharp Spending Decades Fighting for the Abolition of Slavery, Sharp Attempting to Demonstrate That English Legislation Was in Direct Conflict With Slavery, the Person Who Helped Force the English Government to Declare Slavery Illegal in 1772, the Reason Sharp Viewed Slavery as Immoral and Illegal, the Person Who Promised Freedom to All Male Enslaved Persons Who Helped the English Military During the American Revolutionary War, the Location Scottish Royal Governor John Murray (Lord Dunmore) Waited to Intercept All Escaped Male Enslaved Persons, the Methods Escaped Male Enslaved Persons Utilized to Reach Murray, the Rank and Items Provided to Escaped Male Enslaved Persons Post Reaching Murray’s Ship His Majesty’s Ship the Fowey, and the First Mass Liberation of Enslaved Persons Within the English Empire

Prior to making a bid to purchase a slave, perspective buyers and traders would examine the people being auctioned by checking their eyes, nose, and teeth for signs of disease and hitting them on their knees to get them to jump up to prove physical fitness. In total, the British transported over 3,000,000 (3 million) people into slavery over 2.5 centuries of involvement. Trading facilities often had specialized separate rooms built so that traders could take female slaves into privacy and rape t...


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