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.

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

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 ...

However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and relations between African rulers and European traders were strong. The ship’s first ...

Jeanne Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to up to 215 years. Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to up to 160 years, the Kanawha ...

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 ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 ...

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 ...

A West Virginia judge tears into the "reprehensible and narcissistic" defense of the white couple she says have shown no ...

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a Royal Navy squadron was stationed off the West African coast to intercept and capture slaving vessels of other nations. The West ...