slaughterhouses
uranium mining, cement, brick, soap, textiles, food processing, chemicals, slaughterhouses
www.exxun.com/Niger/e_ec.html
slave
Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
slave
... women trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; caste-based slavery practices, rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships, continue in isolated areas of the country - an estimated 8,800 to 43,000 Nigeriens live ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/i_ti.html
slave
... 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated and African slave labor introduced, Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/a_fg.html
slave
... based economy gave way to coffee and cocoa in the 19th century - all grown with plantation slave labor, a form of which lingered into the 20th century. While independence was achieved in ...
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/a_fg.html
slave
... War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/a_fg.html
slave
... archipelago was divided into two territorial units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave labor, drove the islands' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, the ...
www.exxun.com/VirginIslands/a_fg.html
Slavery
... by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English who formed a colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/a_fg.html
slavery
... the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
slavery
... colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery led to black settlement of urban areas and the importation of indentured servants from India ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/a_fg.html
slavery
... in 1655 and established a plantation economy based on sugar, cocoa, and coffee. The abolition of slavery in 1834 freed a quarter million slaves, many of whom became small farmers. Jamaica gradually ...
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/a_fg.html
slavery
... of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
slavery
... and destination country for children and women trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; caste-based slavery practices, rooted in ancestral master-slave relationships, continue in isolated areas of the country - an ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/i_ti.html
slavery
... it served as a provisioning station for the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron on anti-slavery patrol. The island remained under Admiralty control until 1922, when it became a dependency of ...
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
slavery
... 14 times); it was finally ceded to the UK in 1814. Even after the abolition of slavery on its plantations in 1834, Saint Lucia remained an agricultural island, dedicated to producing tropical ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/a_fg.html
slavery
... French and Dutch, who divided it amongst themselves in 1648. The cultivation of sugar cane introduced slavery to the island in the late 18th century; the practice was not abolished until 1848 ...
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/a_fg.html
Slavery
Bastille Day, 14 July (1789); note - local holiday is Schoalcher Day (Slavery Abolition Day) 12 July (1848)
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/d_gv.html
slavery
... in the mid-17th century, Suriname became a Dutch colony in 1667. With the abolition of slavery in 1863, workers were brought in from India and Java. Independence from the Netherlands was ...
www.exxun.com/Suriname/a_fg.html
slavery
... drove the islands' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, the US purchased the Danish portion, which had been in economic decline since the abolition of slavery in 1848
www.exxun.com/VirginIslands/a_fg.html
Slaves
The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/a_fg.html
slaves
... by the Portuguese in the 15th century; Cape Verde subsequently became a trading center for African slaves and later an important coaling and resupply stop for whaling and transatlantic shipping. Following independence ...
www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/a_fg.html
slaves
... following its development as a Spanish colony during the next several centuries. Large numbers of African slaves were imported to work the coffee and sugar plantations, and Havana became the launching point ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
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