The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...