In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...

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 ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

The main reason it took so long to abolish the slave trade was simply because the pro-slave trade lobby had too many important and powerful figures in the establishment. The plantation owners ...

Most of Jamaica’s three million annual visitors will pass by these Georgian relics of Britain’s slave economy ... the burned-out ruins of the hospital where they were treated, the boiling ...

Cudjoe Lewis could scarcely move. He was traveling across the Atlantic on an 86-foot cargo sailing vessel named the Clotilda. The cargo hold where he sat was cramped. It was loaded with the usual ...