Between 1526 and the 1580s, slavery became fully institutionalized. Africans moved from being one labor source among many to the central pillar of Iberian colonization. Brazil’s sugar boom, Mexico’s ...

This passage, preserved in Bartolomé de las Casas’s abstract of the Diario, reveals how quickly Columbus translated “discovery” into domination. On his second voyage in 1493, he seized hundreds of ...

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Donald Trump has, yet again, complained that historians call the US slave trade “horrible” while threatening to sue ...

Questioning the identity of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Vincent Carretta -- Autobiography and memory : Gustavus Vassa, Alias Olaudah Equiano, the African / Paul E. Lovejoy -- ...

Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the ...

The Navy and the slave trade: the suppression of the African slave trade in the nineteenth century by Lloyd, Christopher, 1906-1986 Publication date 1968 Topics Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- ...

The local name for these African slaves was ‘Sheedi’. The slave trade in Karachi reached its peak in the 1830s ... and mapping the coast of Karachi in the 1830s, more than 1,500 slaves arrived in ...

THE SLAVE-TRADE.; Two Slave-Brigs Captured and brought into this Port Two Native Africans brought in as Witnesses.

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats ...

It's market day in Charleston, South Carolina. Hundreds of people bustle about the historic business district, wandering from ...

Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...