The beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade - a request for suggestions

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The enslavement of Africans and South Asians (e.g., Goans, Malaysians) had been established on St. Helena by the 1670s, if not earlier. In 1818 children born of slave women on or after Christmas day were nominally freed, and in 1831 or 1832, several years before general emancipation in the British empire, all 614 of the island’s slaves were emancipated (E.L. Jackson, St. Helena: The historic island [New York, 1905], pp. 68, 72, 260; Philip Gosse, St. Helena, 1502-1938 [London, 1938], pp. 79, 191-92, 300). For a comprehensive account of St. Helena and its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, see Andrew Pearson, et al., Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St. Helena (CBA Research Report 169, Council for British Archaeology (York, England), 2011.