From the 1500s to the 1800s it is estimated that one million white Europeans, to include those captured at sea as well as through land raids abroad were enslaved. Many of these were Americans captured ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of ...

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade ...

During the transatlantic slave trade, about 40 percent of enslaved Africans brought into the U.S. passed through Charleston’s harbor, which was the largest port in North America at the time.

More than 10 million Africans were transported to the Caribbean Two hundred years after Parliament voted to abolish it, the British slave trade remains a highly emotive and contentious subject. The ...

Analysis - The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the ...

As an American of slave descent, my forebears hailed from the interior of West Africa, which geological surveys have confirmed to be one of the most sodium-deficient regions in Africa.

Students examine efforts made by African slaves in the New World to resist slavery and rebel. The lesson would ideally follow a unit on the colonization of the New World.

Aug. 16. -- The Thomas Achem, Capt. PARKER, was taken on the coast of Africa by the steamer Mystic, and the Captain and mate, SIBLEY, and second mate, arrested, and sent to this City.

It is estimated that between 1500 and 1800 around 12 -15 million people were trafficked from African countries to be used as enslaved labour in the Caribbean, North, Central and South America.