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Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch government reportedly plans to apologize for its role in the slave trade ...
Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720 -- ...
Two hundred years after the closing of the transatlantic slave trade in the United States, the country is still feeling the effects of the end of the slave trade, University of Maryland history ...
Papers from the first Gilder Lehrman Center international conference held at Yale University in Oct. 1999. Contents The future store / Walter Johnson -- The domestication of the slave trade in the ...
A nearly six-decade-old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...