Tara Roberts, the first Black woman to ever grace the cover of the National Geographic magazine, is tracking slave ships.

It was one of many American ships involved in illegal trafficking ... After most of the world had banned the transatlantic slave trade, but before the end of slavery, a highly lucrative contraband ...

The term “transatlantic slave trade” has long been established as the predominant descriptor of the forced movement and ...

Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the ...

Anne Ruderman’s discovery of documents from a slave ship has shed new light on the way the industry operated, revealing more about the economics of this very specific market and providing a greater ...

there are many connections between the transatlantic slave trade and our history as well as the specimens and objects we look after. Specimens were often transported on board slave ships and during ...

This transatlantic trade created a new global ... protecting slaves freed from captured slave ships. Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in the slave trade continued, reaching ...

In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and ...

The ship’s first stop was the city of Morondava ... This story shows us the true geographic reach of the transatlantic slave trade. European slavers focused on the west coast of Africa, but ...

It is estimated that 34 ships left British ports for Africa after 1 May. Throughout the duration of the transatlantic slave trade it is estimated that around 12 million African people boarded ...

The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans made ... But for the merchant companies who ran the ships, they were just a commodity of what was to become the richest trading network the world ...

This transatlantic trade created a new global ... protecting slaves freed from captured slave ships. Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in the slave trade continued, reaching ...