click image for close-up Painted in 1840 during a time when slavery was still legal in French colonies, The Slave Trade by Auguste ... The painting did find a home, though -- it was given to ...

A slave could become free by converting to Christianity. The first Virginia colonists did not even think of themselves ... In 1672, England officially got into the slave trade as the King of ...

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro ... During the war he did not want to upset the cabinet ministers that were mostly against abolition.

Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade ... of slavery is sin, which brings man under the dominion of his fellow -- that which does not happen ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its ...