Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...
It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...
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African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the context of the Atlantic slave trade / Walter Rodney -- The role of slavery in the economic and social history of ...
Ghana is calling for global support at the United Nations for a draft resolution that would recognize the transatlantic slave ...
Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was known as "white gold" because of how valuable it was. By the 17th century, ...
The museum and park will be built on Amsterdam’s Java Island in the eastern harbor area. (Courtesy Gemeente Amsterdam) It was the Portuguese who started the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the 15th ...
Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the United States. Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in ...