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On average, the homeland of captives was located just under 106 miles from the point of embarkation (number l 879, standard deviation l 61n7).
After 1808, in the trade as a whole 68n4 per cent of captives were male and 42n6 per cent were children on average.
In contrast to the monuments, on the vases bound live captives are never depicted lying supine.
Figures given the smallest amount of total horizontal space are captives, servants, and children.
French officials were forced to intervene to ensure the return of captives on at least one occasion.
Most likely, they were war captives representing different ethnic groups and/or social classes.
The rationale for such collusion has been hypothesized above as one involving a correlation between the interests of captors and captives.
However, the behavior of captives, who are influenced by human caretakers and artificial environments, is irrelevant here.
Through judicious techniques of estimation, the editors have projected that some 7 million captives were aboard the vessels in the database.
Sweet handles his riches with the care they deserve, writing a true ' page turner ', which provides heart-wrenching details about the experiences of individual captives.
Furthermore, demographic growth was primarily achieved by integrating captives.
By stepping on the captives, the military victories of the rulers were reenacted.
Even then, the social and ecological environment of the captives is far from natural.
She balances the captives' historic perspective with a culturally sensitive synopsis of the captors.
While this report identifies cattle and salt as items exchanged for captives, cowrie shells were probably more important.
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Translations of captive
in Chinese (Traditional)
囚徒, 獵獲物, （尤指）戰俘…
in Chinese (Simplified)
囚徒, 猎获物, （尤指）战俘…
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preso, presa, prisionero/era [masculine-feminine]…
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prisioneiro, prisioneira, preso/-sa [masculine-feminine]…
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esir olmuş/edilmiş, tutsak edilen, esir…
captif/-ive, prisonnier/-ière, captif/-ive [masculine-feminine]…
fange, fanget, indespærret…
fanget, i fangenskap, fange [masculine]…
плененный, содержащийся в неволе, пленник…
นักโทษ, ที่ไม่สามารถหนีได้…
người bị giam cầm, bị giam cầm…
pojmany, jeniec, uwięzion-y/a…
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