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 ...

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

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A marker in Biloxi now honors and shows the very place the first slaves were brought during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Biloxi NAACP held the program, talking about ...

William & Mary instead begins "renting" slaves for housekeeping and other chores ... Edward Augustus Travis is admitted to the law school and in 1954 becomes the first African American to graduate ...

The first African slaves arrived in British North America in 1619, brought to the American colonies on European-owned ships to provide labour for the ever-expanding plantations. At first they were ...

At first, European slavers simply went ashore ... People who had been captured were often brought to the slave factories by local African chiefs or rulers. There they were examined by a surgeon ...

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 ...