Archaeologists have found what they think are the oldest remains of slaves brought from Africa to the New World. The remains, in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in ...

African slavery lacked the notion that whites were masters and blacks were slaves. By the start of the 16th century, almost 200,000 Africans had been transported to Europe and islands in the Atlantic.

Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...

The Spanish took the first African captives to the Americas from Europe as early as 1503, and by 1518 the first captives were shipped directly from Africa to America.

It was not until 1662 that a law was passed to enslave people based on the status of their mothers, over four decades after the first Africans arrived in Virginia.

In 1807, a wealthy 37-year-old scholar was captured in West Africa, in what is now Senegal, and transported to the United States to be sold into slavery. That man, Omar Ibn Said, lived the ...

European traders such as Nicolas Owen waited at these forts for slaves; African traders transported slaves from the interior of Africa. Equiano and others found themselves sold and traded more ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...

Slavery's Bitter Legacy in W. Africa Over 250 years after the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, some West Africans are still trying to come to terms with the involvement of African rulers and ...

Advances in ship design and navigation enabled European traders to travel reliably to Africa. The Portuguese were the first to begin capturing Africans and taking them back to Europe as slaves.