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.

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

The author of a new book on the lack of reparations for the 12.5 million people shipped across the Atlantic in the slave trade has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how none of them or their families are ...

The film is part of an emerging and vocal movement in Spain to confront the legacies of the country’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and enslaved labor.

Slavery wasn’t his field, but he’d long marvelled that historians, who’d recently unveiled the monumental Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, were so far ahead of his social-science peers.

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 l… ...

Divers have been exploring shipwrecks from the transatlantic trade in hopes of salvaging the stories of those lost at sea.

Remembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade January 13 marks 85 years since the death of Matilda, whose name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all ...

Kwesi Essel-Blankson, author of “Our Story: Cape Coast Castle & The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade." The author (left) has been a tour guide at the Cape Coast Castle for over 20 years. In 2009, he ...

Associate Professor of African and Atlantic History, University of Bristol For centuries, it has been held that the ideas and movement for the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade came from ...