In Born in Blackness, Howard W. French explores Africa’s critical role in shaping the modern world through the transatlantic ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on ... Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was ...

Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) as a particularly ... A saltworks in the West Indies, described by former slave Mary Prince, The History ...

The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ...

“Memories of the slave trade are present on both sides ... He had never been to West Africa before, but his interest in the Vodun religion led him there. Debos is the president of an association ...

Sally Smith was kidnapped from West Africa by slave traders and lived until 1937 ... recorded living a peaceful life in her childhood before being seized by members of another local tribe and ...

A monument which has been created to honour Portsmouth sailors who saved thousands of people from slavery has been left ...