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When the Roman Empire became Christian under the Emperor Constantine, the institution of slavery remained unaltered, except for superficial changes.

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Featured Topic – Slavery in Latin America When British clergyman Robert Walsh arrived in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro in 1828, he was struck both by the sheer size of the city’s black population and by its startling diversity of conditions.

Introduction. Between the 1490s and the 1850s, Latin America, including the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, imported the largest number of African slaves to the New World, generating the single-greatest concentration of black populations outside of the African continent.

Feature Islam In America. Learn more about the relationship between Islam and America.

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Slavery: Slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.

Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery by torin

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

History of Latin America: History of Latin America, the history of the region from the pre-Columbian period to the 20th century.

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Latin America generally refers to territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

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