Deep beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a remarkable hunt is unfolding. Joe Sziga, a retired fisherman turned treasure ...

which is that it was also the first city involved in the illegal slave trade in the 19th century." One of the most significant pieces is a 1770 watercolour of the Marie-Séraphique, a ship from ...

At the beginning of the 19th century ... The Protestants spread the Christian gospel through the slaves who were liberated from slaving ships along the West Coast after 1834.

Most historians now agree that at least 12 million slaves left the continent between the fifteenth and nineteenth century, but ten to twenty percent died on board ships. Thus a figure of 11 ...

Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...

Lloyd’s grew to dominate the shipping insurance market, a key element of Europe’s global scramble for empire, treasure and slaves, who were usually in the 18th Century included in insurance ...