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 ...

Spears's “American Slave ... the cargo was accumulating, (three to ten months,) and while crossing the Atlantic, (six to ten weeks,) was usually a room as long and as wide as the ship, but ...

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On the afternoon of May 1, according to open-source aircraft tracking, a C-130 Hercules heavy military transport took off ...

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

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ... the ship "specifically to obtain samples of the ship's timber." He added, "No human remains ...

Researchers analysed timber and bricks taken from the shipwrecks during an underwater excavation off Costa Rica in 2023, and assessed samples, including clay pipes, from their cargo. The analysis ...

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from their cargo. The analysis revealed that the ships were most likely slave trade vessels Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, two of the “most dramatic shipwrecks” in the history of ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...