This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New World slave owners, who bought slaves to work their crops ... slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those enslaved that were transported to ...

Slavery is considered by many to be one of the most terrible crimes and injustices of human history - the treatment of human beings as property, deprived of personal rights. The modern definition ...

The slave trade was abolished in 1807 ... to consider what the lasting global impact of both has been. This could work as a jump-off point for moving onto study of the civil rights movement ...

Even the intimacy of a man and a woman was subject to the absolute control of slave-owners. Grace and Guy were given the surname of their new owner and put to work in his cotton fields.