William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a slave fortress that played a large part in the capture and transportation of enslaved Africans. Profitable trade in West Africa led Europeans to set up permanent ...

The United States of Africa is the political uniting of all African and Afro Caribbean nations, along with Papua New Guinea, ...

More Blacks have come to America voluntarily since the 1980s, whether it be from West Africa, from the Caribbean, than ever came in the slave trade. And what does she say there? She says they ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

The slave trade was a heinous malpractice that ... facilities for people who were abducted from various regions of West ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 32, No. 106, Africa from SAPs to PRSP: Plus Ca Change Plus C'est la Meme Chose (Dec., 2005), pp. 521-534 (14 pages) ...

While in Russia serfdom is becoming traditional, and in the United States the system of African Slavery ... has been adopted: "The slave question in the Dutch West India colonies has been settled.

a ship's captain in the slave trade from Liverpool.These decorative glass beads were used to ease the passage of traders mainly across Africa. Similar beads are also found in the United States and ...