The Barbary pirates of North Africa attacked the coastal northern Mediterranean launching attacks against Britain, France, ...

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.

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

The transatlantic slave trade was a legal business that started in the 1500s and worked for around 400 years in a triangle shape between Europe, Africa and America. Millions of men, women and ...

Britain became involved in the slave trade for money, land and power. Early on in the 1500s, Spain and Portugal had begun trading in slaves, but England saw the potential economic opportunities ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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.

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

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.