In Born in Blackness, Howard W. French explores Africa’s critical role in shaping the modern world through the transatlantic ...
Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a slave fortress that played a large part in the capture and transportation of enslaved Africans. Profitable trade in West Africa led Europeans to set up permanent ...
Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...
A statue celebrating members of the Royal Navy who helped to end the Atlantic slave trade is yet to find a home. Colin Kemp, ...
Her name was Matilda McCrear, and she was the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Crear, who lives near ...
The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ...
William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.
Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou talks about his philanthropic work, and how ‘systemic racism’ means he’s still ...
More Blacks have come to America voluntarily since the 1980s, whether it be from West Africa, from the Caribbean, than ever came in the slave trade. And what does she say there? She says they ...
US rapper Kanye West has said the enslavement of African Americans over centuries may have been a "choice". "When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... for 400 years? That sounds like a choice ...
The last known survivor of the transatlantic slave ships, brought to the US in 1860, has been identified by an academic at Newcastle University. Sally Smith was kidnapped from West Africa by slave ...