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

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

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 ...

Its small size belies its large place in history, its importance in the transatlantic slave trade, and its continuing relevance in preserving memory and heritage for the African diaspora worldwide.

In their feverish search for slaves a few pirates even went as far as the coast of Iceland, raiding inland to kidnap people and bring them back to North Africa. From the 1500s to the 1800s it is ...

As many as 1,500 enslaved people were ... empires along the western coast of Africa. Under the twelve successive kings who ruled, the slave trade thrived as the leaders would seize people from ...

Some individuals have earned places in history, such as La Malinche, a Nahua girl from Mexico’s Gulf Coast sold into slavery in the early 1500s ... with the African slave trade.

In the 1500s, major divisions ... without the transatlantic slave trade. Cloth from the Netherlands was often exchanged for enslaved people in west Africa, for example. In my book, I draw ...

"The transatlantic slave trade obviously had a major effect on the growth of the population in Africa," says Dr Hakim Adi, from the University of Middlesex, adding that its population stagnated ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating ... entered legally on ships and over land from Africa into the heart of a South American mining operation.

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.