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

He was one of the 10 to 12 million Africans who were sold into slavery from the 15th through the 19th Centuries.. "I believe there are few events in my life that have not happened to many," wrote ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

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 ...

Although slavery is an ancient practice it has had its critics long before the 18th century. In West Africa there were a number of people who kept out of the slave trade, refusing to negotiate ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

The status of slaves in America was different to that of those in Africa and Europe. In ancient times a slave in North Africa, Greece or Rome, or in Arab countries, could rise to a position of ...

While the study does not explicitly attribute their findings to ancient slavery practices, data showing predominantly Levantine father and significant African mother haplogroups in the modern ...

One of the big missing pieces is understanding the ancient origins and global scope ... in Asia. . . . Europeans did not invent the African slave trade; they found it already in progress and ...

Ancient Ghana derived power and wealth from ... The Soninke people also sold slaves, salt and copper in exchange for textiles, beads and finished goods. They built their capital city, Kumbi ...