The castle came under British ownership in the 1800s. At the height of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade the castle housed 1000 male and female slaves and 300 slave masters.

To many, the term “slavery” conveys images of the transatlantic slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with all its deplorable horrors. Relegated to a barbaric past, few realize that ...

This story shows us the true geographic reach of the transatlantic slave trade. European slavers focused on the west coast of Africa, but their tentacles stretched eastward and brought locations ...

Explore research into how our history and collections are connected to the transatlantic slave trade. Many museums in the UK have legacies that are rooted in colonialism. In the nineteenth century, ...