slave trade (transatlantic)

In "American Slavers," Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Dahomey had fierce female fighters. They also sold people overseas.

Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for slaves increased.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.

Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

Key plant and animal specimens arrived in Europe on slavers’ ships

A new documentary lays bare just how central a role Scotland played in the slave trade.

How an engraving of a slave ship helped the abolition movement.

How the U.S. Army's antebellum camel experimentation paved the way for the illicit trafficking of enslaved Africans.

Rethinking the history of Africans in early America.

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

Nine maps of the transatlantic slave trade between 1500 and 1900.

Jews have long been feared as the power behind inexplicable evils. Responsibility for the African slave trade has recently been added to this list of crimes.

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors

The disparate and intriguing connections found in environmental history, one tree ring at a time.

Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.

A re-examination of the Age of Exploration may have more than a little to teach us about modern venture capitalists.