In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

Beginning in the seventh century with the expansion of Islam, the Arab slave trade became a vast network spanning North ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

Revise and recap the triangular trade, including its effects on British ports and African society, and conditions of slave factories and the middle passage. What was the triangular trade?

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

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

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can ...

they were victims of an age-old regional warfare which underpinned an equally ancient but persistent trade in slavery reaching across North and East Africa, the Ottoman Empire and eventually the ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...