African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

Thanks to the work of a team of young people from Limón, in partnership with the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and ...

who were taken from Africa to be sold in the Americas during the five centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. Their story marks an important historical transition, as the North American ...

A journey to the remote Indian Ocean island reveals the story behind the fragrant, delicious, ubiquitous spice—and the ...

Every day that Americans don't rise-up in the millions against the malignant fascist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump to ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1500, a Portuguese fleet commanded ... which depended on the labor of slaves brought from Africa. National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic Collection ...

Stretching 3 miles from the Mississippi River to City Park, Esplanade Avenue is today a leafy thoroughfare lined with ...

Rare firsthand accounts left by the slaveholders as well as their victims offer a one-of-a-kind window into the Atlantic slave trade, says Sylviane Diouf, a noted historian of the African diaspora.

millions of African lives were lost, families destroyed, cultures interrupted and nations robbed of their precious resources. Without question, the transatlantic slave trade facilitated one of the ...

This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual ...

The subscribers having leased for a term of years the large three story brick house on Duke Street, in the town of Alexandria, D.C. formerly occupied by Gen. Young, we wish to purchase one hundred ...