Article on extent of African slave trade prior to April 1861 and successful efforts to suppress it. ... Several seizures were made of slavers on the Coast of Africa -- among them the ship ...

Between the 15th and 19th Centuries, it is estimated that up to 12m Africans were forced onto European slave ships and taken across the Atlantic. Two hundred years after the British parliament voted ...

Slavery is one such permissive foraging ground for revisionists, and the African continent remains the dedicated, indeed consecrated – in more senses than one – consecrated material base for ...

By Adejoke AdeleyeA powerful African historical epic, ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons,’ is poised to make its global cinema debut on July 25, in what promises to be a landmark moment for African ...

Alvina Reynolds, president of the Saint Lucian senate, says historical records show that most of the African slaves brought ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...