The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. It represents one of the largest forced migrations, displacing 12.5 million Africans from their homelands. The trade was also ...

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) —The GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico museum has added a new exhibition to their collection of historic artifacts and memorabilia. “Spirits of the Passage: ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

Some implications of the abolition of the slave trade / Stanley L. Engerman -- The ideology of antislavery / Howard Temperley -- Religion and British slave emancipation / Roger T. Anstey -- The public ...

Today we gather in commemoration of the victims of one of history’s most horrific crimes against humanity. A crime perpetrated for over 400 years. A crime that resulted in the forced deportation of ...