On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

And still another reason: the Royal African Company's monopoly on the slave trade had recently ended, opening the trade to all. Liverpool's first slaving vessel, ironically named the Blessing ...

In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story.

The slave trade had long-lasting negative effects on the islands of the Caribbean. The indigenous peoples, the Arawaks, were largely wiped out by European diseases, violence, starvation and ...

Does a genetic secret explain why a devastating form of kidney disease affects Black Americans? In the summer of 2008, with ...

Beneath Alabama’s Mobile River rests a relic of American history: the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach U.S.

Calls for the UK to provide reparations for its historical role in the slave trade have reignited ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth countries on Friday. While Sir Keir Starmer said reparatory ...

However new research by the University of South Wales has shown the extent of the links between rural mid Wales and the slave trade. Prof Chris Evans has investigated the overlooked role ...

When President Biden visits the country this week, he is expected to highlight a largely overlooked bond between Angola and the United States that was born out of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Elon Musk has defended Britain as a row about the UK's role in the slave trade continues with Caribbean countries demanding ...