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 ...

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 ...

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

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort Mose. Why don’t more people know their story?

A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday jailed by a Swedish court on charges of ...

Being a landlocked country did not stop Switzerland from playing its part in the transatlantic slave trade triangle, linking West Africa, America and Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries.