Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

European slave traders seldom captured and enslaved African people by themselves. The terrain was too difficult and the kingdoms that ruled these parts of Africa were often too strong for a ...

For the first time ever, Henry Lovejoy, a CU Boulder history professor, has mapped the boundaries of a fallen African kingdom best known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. During its reign, the ...

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 ...

Africa in History: Six historical debates from the Origin of Ancient Egypt to Africa's role in the Slave Trade. (30 minutes each) To listen to any of these radio programmes, please visit the ...

Even more striking was Palin's complete silence on the role of the native African kingdoms that eagerly supplied the trade by ...

In 1726 the King of Dahomey suggested Europeans should establish plantations in his kingdom - he would supply the slaves. · One of the few successful on ship slave rebellions took place in 1840 ...