However, when news of the revolution spread to the French colony of Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti, slaves revolted violently, burning plantations to the ground and executing any Frenchman ...

African slaves are especially noteworthy ... resource-sapping struggles between the Atlantic powers created an opening for internal rebellion. The goal of the insurrectionists, understandably ...

Millions of people were abducted from West Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade, from the 15th to the 19th century. Slavery treated these ...

Britain became involved in the slave trade for money, land and power. Early on in the 1500s, Spain and Portugal had begun trading in slaves, but England saw the potential economic opportunities ...

It was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history—and quickly forgotten. On the second day, re-enactors strode along a levee near the Shell Norco refinery. The flag reads “Death or Liberty!” ...

However, when news of the revolution spread to the French colony of Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti, slaves revolted violently, burning plantations to the ground and executing any Frenchman ...

Alamy A dogged U.S. scholar has upended the conventional wisdom about enslaved Africans in the New World by demonstrating that the first successful slave uprising in the Americas occurred in ...

As a result, black Africans were shipped across the Atlantic to work as slaves in the fields. Students could investigate indentured servitude and its relation to industrialisation. Discuss how a ...

When you subscribe, you’ll not only enjoy all of The Atlantic’s writing, past and present; you’ll also be supporting a bright future for our journalism. “To speak as the slave would ...

Slavery had existed in African society for centuries. Tribal chiefs and kings, greedy for power and profits, sold to slave traders, while poverty and famine also led some to volunteer either ...

The slave trade was abolished in 1807, but it wasn’t until 1833 that Britain abolished slavery throughout the Empire. The government paid out a total of 20 million pounds in compensation to ...

Investigate how Scotland benefitted from the slave trade. Produce lists of direct benefits, secondary trades and industries, and broader social and economic changes that resulted from profits of ...