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 passing ...

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 passing ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat around the same ...

From about the year 1500, millions of West Africans were ... “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 as the “Year of Justice ...

By 1500, with the demand for ... which were brought to the west coast of Africa and traded for more slaves. The bloody side of this “triangular trade,” during which millions of Africans ...

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 ...

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

Slavery was a long-standing practice in Africa, with systems of servitude and slavery existing in many regions before the transatlantic slave trade emerged in the 16th century. In the same vein ...