For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

The plaque outlining his role in the slave trade is installed despite being labelled "shameful". The Women of Llanrumney is set on a sugar plantation in 18th Century Jamaica. The stories of African ...

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...

The City of London Corporation reinterprets the statues of slave traders Lord Mayor William Beckford and MP Sir John Cass.

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

Hoorn says no to slavery apology, despite its slave trade past December 15, 2023 The statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen in the town centre. Photo GerardM at Dutch Wikipedia Councillors in Hoorn have ...

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.