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.

Although slavery is an ancient practice it has had its critics long before the 18th century. In West Africa there were a number of people who kept out of the slave trade, refusing to negotiate ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating ... these Africans entered legally on ships and over land from Africa into the heart of a South American mining operation.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has travelled to Ghana in West Africa for events ... Dungeons in Ghana used to hold slaves before they were shipped across the ...

He rightly painted a picture with words of the horrific nature of slavery ... before the first Europeans showed up on their shores. The same was true throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa.