African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English ... filling at least 36 ships with human cargo. These captives would be sent to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Central and South ...

Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860 ... scraping together details about the ship and its cargo. He keeps a 1931 article from the Mobile Register about Cudjo ...

The ocean covers most of the Earth’s surface, and over centuries, humans have built a wide variety of ships to travel across ...

I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal,” Johan Helberg said to The Guardian when he woke to discover a 443-foot freighter, the NCL Salten, looming mere meters from his Norwegian ...

Richmond is slowly coming to terms with its past as a major slave-trading market. The Richmond Slave Trail, a self-guided walking tour of 17 sites, chronicles the trade of enslaved Africans to ...

It wasn't long before Eichelman and even some students noticed some peculiarities. The textbook said slaves were happy, often referring to them as servants. It glorified Confederates. And it said ...