After banning the transportation of slaves in 1807, Britain established the West Africa Squadron, a naval force that patrolled the waves of the Atlantic in search of slave ships. The ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies ... which left Benin in West Africa a week ago. The ship was turned away from Cameroon, where ...

INDEX: The Atlantic Slave Trade Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) ...

Millions of enslaved Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved people. The wealth to be made ...

We need to be honest enough with ourselves to say the meanness and sadness of Americans is not a new phenomenon ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

The coastal town of Ouidah was one of Africa’s most active slave-trading ports in the 18th and 19th centuries. Close to a ...

America’s racism and slavery story needs to be told with brutal honesty, but our reckoning shouldn’t be an easy morality tale ...

The Clotilda shipwreck will remain submerged as a monument to the 110 enslaved people it carried—and in tribute to their ...

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney unveiled plans on Monday for a life-size replica slave ship with amphitheater seating and a ...