The Ledger and the Chain tells the story of how these three men profited from the United States’ decision to outlaw the foreign slave trade, in 1808. The change, of course, did not put an end to ...

Demand for slaves skyrocketed accordingly, and during the 1830s, slave traders moved about as many enslaved people via the interstate trade as they had in the previous two decades combined.

Kneeling in chains, the dramatic apology from slave trader descendant. By JAMES TOZER, Daily Mail. Last updated at 22:00 21 June 2006 ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we celebrate on Juneteenth.

The international slave trade involving all the major nations of Europe as transporters, much of Africa to supply the slaves, and both North and South America and the West Indies as markets for ...

Twenty-two years ago, the U.S. created the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) program, in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, to limit supply chains’ exposure to terrorism. In ...

After the abolition of the slave trade in 1808, the principal source of the expansion of slavery into the lower South was the domestic slave trade from the upper South.

The Richmond Slave Trail is a winding two-and-half mile route from the historic Manchester docks to the old slave auction houses in Shockoe Bottom. Throughout the 1700s, enslaved people were ...