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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

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 world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and Indigenous islanders' spiritual ties to the sea that must be protected, NGOs ...

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 ...