Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

However, in his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson points out that ... In Spanish Caribbean islands and Portuguese Brazil by the mid 1500s, colonists had turned to the quick and highly ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between African rulers and European traders were strong. The ship’s ...

The transatlantic slave trade was a legal business that started in the 1500s and worked for around 400 years in a triangle shape between Europe, Africa and America. Millions of men, women and ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

From about the year 1500, millions of West Africans were ... “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 as the “Year of Justice ...