The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its victims.

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 ...

Kingdom, located in what is now modern-day Ghana, was one of the most powerful and influential states in West Africa during ...

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.

It was rare, but not unheard of, for captains to take high ranking Africans on board ships to travel to Europe. However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade ...

A white West Virginia couple who forced their five Black adoptive children to work as “slaves” were each sentenced to more ...

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

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 ...

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 ...