Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates ... that Captain John Smith created for England in the early 1600s. Sculptors in the Kongo created Nkisi, power figures like ...

Akeia de Barros Gomes, Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at Mystic Seaport Museum, is interviewed for Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery. In the early 1600s ...

They called slavery immoral. "Yeah, the British Navy," Reilly explains, "in a story almost no one now knows, sank 1,600 slave ships. They freed 150,000 people that were enslaved at the time." ...

By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves. Ireland quickly became the biggest ...

Ever since the late 1600s, Spanish Florida was becoming a sanctuary for African slaves who fled from British plantations. Long before there was an underground railroad that ran north, there was an ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from ...

A tree-shaped display inside the church contains bronze leaves bearing the names of 73 congregation members who were enslaved “or of African descent” in the 1600s and 1700s ... providing a brief ...

The Dutch first became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1500s and became a major trader in the mid-1600s. Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans ...

Supporters wanted the commercial center renamed because Roxbury resident Thomas Dudley was a leading politician when Massachusetts legally sanctioned slavery in the 1600s. A year earlier ...

The Dutch first became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1500s and became a major trader in the mid-1600s. Eventually, the Dutch West India Company became the largest trans ...

Supporters wanted the commercial center renamed because Roxbury resident Thomas Dudley was a leading politician when Massachusetts legally sanctioned slavery in the 1600s. A year earlier ...