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

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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 ...

One painting that I use to think about this is Rembrandt van Rijn’s very famous work called Syndics of the Draper’s Guild. It’s a group portrait of wealthy, white merchants gathered around a table ...