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Hace 2 días · Triangular trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas African slaves 17th-century in a tobacco plantation, Virginia, 1670. Indigenous population loss following European contact directly led to Spanish explorations beyond the Caribbean islands they initially claimed and settled in the 1490s, since they required a labor force to both produce food and to mine gold.
Hace 2 días · During the 1983–2005 Second Sudanese Civil War, people were taken into slavery. [12] Evidence emerged in the late 1990s of systematic child slavery and trafficking on cacao plantations in West Africa. [13] Slavery in the 21st century continues and generates an estimated $150 billion in annual profits. [14]
Hace 1 día · 17th century. A French youth named Jean Grenier claimed in 1603 that he was a werewolf and had killed and eaten 50 children who had recently gone missing from the town of Saint-Sever. He was convicted of lycanthropy and sentenced to confinement for life due to his young age.
Hace 3 días · Boxing (also known as "western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport and a martial art [1] in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring . Although the term boxing is commonly attributed ...
Hace 2 días · By the end of the 17th century, houses of correction were absorbed into local prison facilities under the control of the local justice of the peace. Transportation, prison ships and penal colonies Women in Plymouth, England (Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll) mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay (1792)
Hace 3 días · 18th-century male life expectancy at birth was 34 years. Female expectation of remaining years at age 15 rose from ~33 years around the 15th-16th centuries to ~42 in the 18th century. 18th-century England: 25–40: For most of the century it ranged from 35 to 40; but in the 1720s it dipped as low as 25.
Hace 3 días · A city pub, the World's End, Camden Town, London. The Ale-House Door (painting of c. 1790 by Henry Singleton) A pub (short for public house) is a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in the late 17th century, to differentiate private houses from those open to the ...
