ACCT 2001 Chapter : Questions For Captives As Commodities
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Questions for captives as commodities 4/16/2010 4:53:00 am. Questions for lisa lindsay, captives as commodities: the transatlantic. One of the horrors of the period leading up to the nineteenth century was the use of slaves and the slave trade that supplied them. Lisa lindsay has a good, short book telling the story of the slave trade, concluding with its abolition which was an upheaval of sorts. She also has made every chapter title a question, which is good for me. Wilberforce (played by ioan gruffudd), probably the greatest moral politician of late 18th and early 19th-century britain, and his effort to end the slave trade, which he succeeded in doing in 1807. In the film are the famous historical figures of william pitt (played by benedict cumberbatch), the youngest man to become britain"s prime minister, and charles james fox (michael gambon), one of the leading advocates of liberty of his time.
