For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, “Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children ...

Thousands of more enslaved men, women and children would experience the same cruel journey from the mid-Atlantic and Upper South to New Orleans over the next 20 years until the evil slave trade is ...

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 ...

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 last ...

That connection includes a U.S. anti-slavery squadron that captured three slave ships near Cuba after the trade had been deemed illegal and brought them into Key West in 1860.

Books Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and Stacy M. Brown’s groundbreaking book on the Transatlantic Slave Trade calls for action and education by Special Press Release February 12, 2025 ...

The new law, which was initiated by President Patrice Talon, who has been in office since 2016, is part of a broader effort by Benin to reckon with its own historical role in the slave trade.

Much of Creuzet’s work, including this exhibit, references legacies of colonialism and the African diaspora. Notes from the gallery highlight this as one of the reasons why Creuzet’s work is exhibited ...

According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, “Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children ...