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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, “Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children ...