Sentence examples for slave merchants from inspiring English sources

The sultans thus not only kept a close watch over the slave market but also commissioned slave merchants as state agents.

Like executives today, British slave merchants pressed their government for deregulation, and finally it obliged, canceling the Royal African Company's guaranteed monopoly.

"What a glorious and advantageous trade this is," wrote James Houston, who worked for a firm of 18th-century slave merchants.

In this they were influenced by Arab slave merchants, who assigned the worst tasks to their dark skinned slaves while assigning more complex labor to light or tawny-skinned slaves (Frederickson 2002, 29).

Local professionals sold their own people to Greek slave merchants.

The Cape Coast Castle was the main point of departure for many slaves captured from the hinterlands and sold to slave merchants who transported them to America.

In its favor, this operatic torso has a good deal of lovely and at times wonderfully dramatic vocal writing, with Zaide getting the best material, not surprisingly, but Gomatz, Allazim, Soliman and a slave merchant, Osmin, having robust moments too.

"But, you know, part of what you also try to do with kids is to get them to imagine themselves on the other side, as being the slave merchant," Mr. Obama said.

This small museum is a tribute to the residents of Cape Town's District Six, a ghetto that was home to a mix of freed slaves, merchants, artisans and laborers.

Houses in the Georgetown area of the city are reported to be haunted by figures from colonial times, including slaves, merchants and children.

Along with salt, gold and slaves, merchant caravans brought scholars and scribes, many of whom stopped along the road to set up Koranic schools and manuscript ateliers.