European colonists found an answer to their pressing labor shortage by importing enslaved workers from Africa. By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on ...

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...

In 2023, a team of experts managed to locate what they believed to be the first-ever English slave fort in Africa ... and was ...

In 1518 the first slaves were dispatched across the Atlantic ... The status of slaves in America was different to that of those in Africa and Europe. In ancient times a slave in North Africa ...

It was the first trading post in that region ... Millions of Africans were captured and sold through these European slave fortresses. Millions of enslaved Africans died in captivity or on board ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

1718 William & Mary purchases the Nottoway Quarter and 17 slaves. Income from the tobacco provides scholarships ... Edward Augustus Travis is admitted to the law school and in 1954 becomes the first ...