Joseph Knight (fl. 1769–1778) was a man born in Guinea (the general name of West Africa) and there seized into slavery. It appears that the captain of...

historian Joseph Knight (horticulturist) (1778–1855), gardener Joseph Knight (slave), slave brought from Jamaica to Scotland Joseph Knight (novel), a...

History of slavery Joseph Knight (slave) Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Slavery in international law Slavery in the colonial United States Slave Trade Acts, with...

Dendur. He also bought some children in the Cairo slave market and later freed them. When Maximilian Joseph was in Jerusalem, he paid for the restoration...

whose slave, Joseph Knight, successfully sued for his freedom. Richard Wenman (c. 1712–1781). Nova Scotia politician and brewer. One of his slaves, Cato...

Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships...

whereabouts of Joseph Knight, a slave he brought back to Scotland with him from his Sugar plantations in Westmoreland, Jamaica. Joseph had successfully...

a stowaway in a slave ship. Whereupon found, he is made a slave, but integrated into what turns out to be a tight community of slaves who look out for...

country in the world to outlaw the slave trade within its borders (see Somerset v Stewart) followed by the Knight v. Wedderburn decision in Scotland in...

United States, in order to vastly increase the number of slave states and thus the power of the slave-holding Southern upper classes. In response to the increased...

A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (French: galérien), or a kind of human chattel...

largest landowner in Jamaica. In 1769 he returned to Scotland with a slave, one Joseph Knight, who was inspired by Somersett's Case, a judgment in London determining...

Jean Parisot de Valette (1495–1568), a knight of the Order of Saint John was captured and made a galley slave in 1541 by Barbary pirates under the command...

irrigation, education and justice; as well as selling his father's female slaves and closing the court's harem quarters. He was the oldest son of Khedive...

he could not be held as a slave in Great Britain. In the case of Knight v. Wedderburn (1778), Wedderburn said that Knight owed him "perpetual servitude"...

Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, also known as the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and sometimes referred to as the...

Creole: Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state...

Muslim slaves captured in war. The Order of the Knights of Malta attacked pirates and Muslim ships, and their base became a center for slave trading...

pressure to abolish official Egyptian slave raids in the Sudan, Sa'id issued a decree banning raids. Freelance slave traders ignored his decree. When the...

Austrian Order of Franz Joseph (‹See Tfd›German: Kaiserlich-Österreichischer Franz-Joseph-Orden) was founded by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria on 2 December...

he could not be held as a slave in Great Britain. In the case of Knight v. Wedderburn (1778), Wedderburn said that Knight owed him "perpetual servitude"...

low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with few opportunities for advancement and little chance of freedom. Skilled and educated slaves—including...

slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states. European slaves were...

resolves to fight as a gladiator under the tutelage of Macrinus, a former slave who plots to overthrow the young emperors Caracalla and Geta. Paul Mescal...

73 to 71 BC led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua. Executive producers Steven S. DeKnight and Robert Tapert focused...

Silentio contrasts the knight of faith with the other two, the knight of infinite resignation and the aesthetic realm's "slaves." Kierkegaard uses the...

Nick Knight (born Nicholas de Brabant) is the main character of the Canadian television series Forever Knight, and its precursor 1989 television movie...

in 1571, the knights set about protecting Christian merchant shipping to and from the Levant and freeing the captured Christian slaves who formed the...

May and Suzanne Bolch) & Sphinx Jinx (written by Ben Joseph) S02E10 - Griddle's Sleepless Knights (written by Erika Strobel) & Whine & Roses (written by...

Master of the Order of Malta, from 21 August 1557 to his death in 1568. As a Knight Hospitaller, joining the order in the Langue de Provence, he fought with...