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It was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.

Geschichte zum Mitnehmen – jetzt auch für die Ohren!Seit über 22 Jahren liefern wir mehr als nur Schwerter, Kettenhemden und Helme – jetzt gibt’s auch das passende Kopfkino dazu!Begib dich mit uns auf eine Zeitreise zu den alten Griechen, den trinkfesten Wikingern und dem Mittelalter, wo Ritter noch richtig draufgehauen haben. Wir erzählen dir, wie damals gelebt, geliebt und gekämpft wurde – manchmal episch, manchmal skurril, aber immer mit Herz und Helm.Ob Reenactment, LARP oder Cosplay, bei uns wird Geschichte zum Abenteuer – auch online auf www.battlemerchant.com 😊

History to Go – Now Also for Your Ears! For over 23 years, we've been delivering more than just swords, chainmail, and helmets – now we've got the perfect mind movie to go with it! Join us on a time travel adventure to the ancient Greeks, the hard-drinking Vikings, and the Middle Ages, where knights really knew how to lay into it. We'll tell you how people lived, loved, and fought back then – sometimes epic, sometimes bizarre, but always with heart and helm. Whether it's reenactment, LARP, or cosplay, we turn history into an adventure – also online at www.battlemerchant.com 😊

The Opening Session of The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal began on November 12, 2023. This People’s Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses and documentary evidence — four U.S. weapons manufacturers which produce and sell products that attack and kill not only combatants but non-combatants as well. These four defendants— Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Atomics—are representative of the entire U.S. War Industry. On November 10, 2022, the four defendants were served with subpoenas and asked to participate. All four defendants declined. This ...

A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery.