Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings.

2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope ...

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade. We ...

Ships such as the USS Shark were despatched in 1821 on a mission to act against slave traders and pirates. On her maiden voyage she sailed by way of Madeira, Canary and Cape Verde Islands to ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

It was the first trading post in that region of Africa. Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a slave fortress that played a large part in the capture and transportation of enslaved Africans. Profitable ...

Cape Town Tourism The Kaapse Klopse parade is a cultural event that has its roots in the early days of colonisation and slavery in the Cape when people brought slaves to Cape Town from various ...