The warriors of this West African kingdom were formidable—and female. In the 17th century, ... from the 1793 The History of Dahomey by slave trader and historian Archibald Dalzel.

In reality, Dahomey was a notorious slave kingdom, and not the Pan-African freedom fighters as the movie presents them. They enslaved and murdered hundreds of thousands from other tribes and sold ...

Spanish traders took the first African slaves to America in 1503. Over the next century the slave trade developed as a lucrative commercial system. ... Some have argued that some African kingdoms were ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.

Out of Africa: from West African Kingdoms to Colonization exhibition records Summary An exhibition on the history of the transatlantic slave trade, organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood and held ...

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 ...

African kingdoms didn’t operate like territorial kingdoms in European or Asian history, says Parker. “They had dynamic and more fluid ways of operating, and there was a distinction between the core ...

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade.