The Ledger and the Chain tells the story of how these three men profited from the United States’ decision to outlaw the foreign slave trade, in 1808. The change, of course, did not put an end to ...

Demand for slaves skyrocketed accordingly, and during the 1830s, slave traders moved about as many enslaved people via the interstate trade as they had in the previous two decades combined.

Kneeling in chains, the dramatic apology from slave trader descendant. By JAMES TOZER, Daily Mail. Last updated at 22:00 21 June 2006 ...

A section of a print of the Brookes Slave Ship diagram dated 1791 forms part of the collection in the Wilberforce House Museum in Hull, Britain, July 5, 2019. REUTERS Their arrival, 400 years ago ...

click image for close-up In his 1851 publication of his journal, Dahomey and the Dahomeyans, Frederick Forbes gave an account of the slave trade in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Forbes had been sent to ...

Rattle of slave chains in the 21st century. By John Miller . March 13, 2007 12 AM PT . ... The international slave trade reaches into every country around the world and involves, ...

Slave trader Joseph Bruin placed this advertisement in the Alexandria Gazette on March 20, 1844. ... At ports and along roads, travelers reported seeing scores of enslaved people in chains.

In the 188 years since Ghana’s British colonial masters officially abolished the slave trade, no one had paid much attention to the peeling white castle that still looms over this pretty litt… ...

'Bury the Chains': Britain's End to Slave Trade Certain events in history people just know — in Great Britain, its well-known that the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. In America, Abraham Lincoln ...

A SYMBOLIC 300ft chain was broken in a service at Manchester Cathedral held to mark the abolition of the slave trade. It was made up of hundreds of visitors' messages linked together.

click image for close-up In his 1851 publication of his journal, Dahomey and the Dahomeyans, Frederick Forbes gave an account of the slave trade in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Forbes had been sent to ...