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 section of a print of the Brookes Slave Ship diagram dated 1791 forms part of the collection in the Wilberforce House Museum in Hull, Britain, July 5, 2019. REUTERS Their arrival, 400 years ago ...

click image for close-up In his 1851 publication of his journal, Dahomey and the Dahomeyans, Frederick Forbes gave an account of the slave trade in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Forbes had been sent to ...

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

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 ...