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

Europeans operated the slave ships while the task of kidnapping ... What Were the Effects of the Slave Trade on the World?

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 ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...