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 ...

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.

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 ...

Hence the Atlantic slave trade began ... model that took into captivity millions of people from regions such as West Africa and Central Africa and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean ...

The 38th African Union (AU) Summit due to convene in Addis Ababa next week has identified "Justice for Africans and People of ...

Each one of them was bought by the same fisherman to come and work as his slave. “Every morning we ... the Deputy Chief Executive of the Krachi West District. “But we have discussed it at ...

Each one of them was bought by the same fisherman to come and work as his slave. “Every morning we ... the Deputy Chief Executive of the Krachi West District. “But we have discussed it at ...

Ships carried weapons and manufactured goods from Europe to the “slave coast” of West Africa on the first part of the round trip; in the Middle Passage, that cargo was traded for enslaved ...

The West Africa Squadron, which operated between 1808 and 1860, is believed to have seized approximately 1,600 ships involved in the slave trade and freed 150,000 Africans who were aboard.