Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...

Across town at the city's historical museum and castle, Château des ducs de Bretagne, holds further records of Nantes’ role in the slave trade. Inside, exhibits include plantation registers ...

You’ve got more than 1,700 boats names represented, so that faces you with the big investment of the port of Nantes and the traders and ship owners and to the slave trade in the 18th century.” Across ...

An exhibit called “Asian Comics” might make the average American think of the Japanese manga which has become so popular in ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also celebrating black Americans' political, intellectual, and cultural ...

Once, Nantes was the centre of French military shipbuilding and, before that, a major slave port. After the shipyards closed in 1987, much of the Île de Nantes, the island at the heart of the ...

The Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool will shut ahead of a huge multi-million-pound revamp. Both waterfront museums are popular with holidaymakers, with millions of ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

But seeing and hearing how they’d come to the country—even on a museum ship, built to commemorate the famous maritime slave rebellion—was a shock. It deepened when, as a teen-ager ...