The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ...

The major Atlantic slave trading nations, in order of trade volume, were Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, the Netherlands, the United States, and Denmark. Several had established outposts on the ...

A Republican candidate in Georgia has shared a clip that describes the Atlantic Slave Trade as “fake history.” Stephanie Donegan, who is running to represent Atlanta’s northern exurbs in the state ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the General Assembly Hall during the historic vote on a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and the ...

Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at the time ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday condemning the trans-Atlantic slave trade that occurred between the 16th and 19th centuries and also urged reparations for it “as ...

The long-awaited design of London’s first monument to victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been unveiled. By 2026, the city will feature a towering bronze cowrie shell, which will symbolize ...

Ile de Goree in Dakar pairs a compact island setting with a history shaped by Atlantic trade and slave-trade memory. Ile de ...

SlaveVoyages, a tool for data on history's largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project's upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher ...

In the 17th century, the Indian ocean slave trade was arguably on a bigger scale than the Atlantic slave trade. The hub of this vile industry was in modern-day Tanzania, an area that specialized in ...