As March marks Ghana Month, GhanaWeb takes a closer look at the history of the slave trade at Fort Amsterdam. In an exclusive ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. One of the places we have the ...

Like the slaves, sailors rose up against their horrific working and living conditions. Insurrections on land, even if crushed by a colonial military, shook the existing power structure to its ...

Brazil abolished slavery in 1888, the last nation in the ... Lisbon saw Palmares as a direct challenge to its colonial state. Not only did maroon troops raid Portuguese settlements; they also ...

Black women in colonial Boston fought for justice and shaped the city’s history. Their resistance, resilience, and legacy ...

British mercantilism flourished during the middle of the 17th century at a time when England was flexing its muscle in the New World. The idea behind this economic policy was that the colonies existed ...

With the arrival of Europeans the slaves displaced gold as the main commodity for trade. As late as 1895 the British Colonial Office was not concerned by this. "It would be a mistake to frighten ...

In South Korea, the women forced into sexual slavery have been widely accepted as a deeply emotional symbol of Korea’s suffering under colonial rule by Japan from 1910 to 1945, and of a need for ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America. It happened gradually -- one person at a time, one law at a time, even one colony at a time. All servants imported and brought ...