Divers have been exploring shipwrecks from the transatlantic trade in hopes of salvaging the stories of those lost at sea.

In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

In the everlasting faceoff between Black history and America’s self-conception ... they emphasize the slave trade that would reduce human beings to property.” Northup’s heart-wrenching ...

Thus begins Alexander Falconbridge's book, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. Employed as a surgeon aboard various slave ships, Falconbridge had first-hand knowledge of many ...

This transatlantic trade created a new global economy that peaked between the 17th and 18th centuries. However, not everyone agreed with slavery and by the 18th century the Abolitionist Movement ...