How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Continues to Impact Modern Life. A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism ...

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

NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., co-author of “The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-year Legacy, ” announced that the book will be distributed to schools and ...

The book is based on new material found in ... Angolan prince started campaign to end Atlantic slave trade long before Europeans did – new book. Story by José Lingna Nafafé, University of ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost.

NEW YORK, October 08, 2024--Civil Rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and renowned journalist Stacy M. Brown collaborated on the groundbreaking book The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming ...

In the final decades of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal reclaims its status as the leading slavers, sending 1.3 million people to the Western Hemisphere, and mostly to Brazil.

Book Excerpt: ‘Better Venture ... The trans-Atlantic slave trade began when the Portuguese kidnapped and packed no fewer than 400 people at a time on ships that sailed from the west coast of ...

Though Northern cities such as New York and Boston freed themselves of the curse after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, yellow fever flourished in the South for decades after the Civil War.

The Atlantic slave trade began in 1415 and ran for four and a half centuries. During that time, more than 16 million Africans were kidnapped and transported to Europe, South and North America and ...