For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

The USS Constellation is a fixture in Baltimore's Inner Harbor as hundreds of people pass by it every day — but most have no idea the role it played in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by recording government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...

In their book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engermen analyzed various elements of the slave economy including the role of slave traders ...

Nat Turner’s rebellion came at a crucial time, more than 20 years after the closing of the trans-atlantic slave trade in 1808, which heightened debates around both the morality and ...

Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...