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 ...

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

The transatlantic trade in enslaved people increased African slavery. Due to the huge demand for an enslaved labour force to work on Caribbean and American plantations, European traders set up ...

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 ...

"Saint Lucia's slavery history reveals that the Nigerian ancestry, with 34% of enslaved Africans traced to Nigeria in the ...