Agnès Poras is a tour guide at The Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery ... the Nantes History Museum dedicated to the Atlantic slave trade and colonial slavery, particularly in this room.

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade. Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English ...

Modern slavery is very cheap, and Kevin Bales has argued that this has made modern slavery even worse than that of Atlantic Slave Trade: In the United States before the Civil War, the average ...

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New ... by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated African life. Culture and traditions ...

Excerpt taken from Hugh Thomas, The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade. There was no hope of returning home; the vast majority of slaves were stuck in the Americas for the rest of their lives.

Press, 1987) which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and *The Rise of African Slavery ... He is currently at work on a census of the Atlantic slave trade, a book on slave ship revolts, an ...

Along the banks of the Loire, the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes stands as a tribute to those affected by the transatlantic slave trade. Trump says U.S. has been 'ripped off' by ...

In the 17th century, the Indian ocean slave trade was arguably on a bigger scale than the Atlantic slave trade. The hub of this vile industry was in modern-day Tanzania, an area that specialized ...