a Newcastle University historian specialising in the transatlantic slave trade and author of the 2024 book, Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

State Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago), sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy ...

British maritime services firm Lloyd's Register apologised on Wednesday for its role in enslaving Africans in the 18th and ...

More people believe that Scotland was simply a subject of England than a partner in creating the largest empire the world ...

A statue celebrating members of the Royal Navy who helped to end the Atlantic slave trade ... Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a Royal Navy squadron was stationed ...

Their bones were then ground up to bleach sugar. Sugar fuelled the trans- Atlantic slave trade as no other commodity was able to do but in the end sugar also contributed to the end of the slave ...

The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating ... they were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean. They would then travel further over land, to South American gold mines ...

A planned memorial to the Royal Navy’s role in ending the slave trade is in limbo after ... their lives to help end the vile trans-Atlantic trade. Between 1807 and 1867, the squadron freed ...

Around the same time, other countries—including the United States, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands—passed their own trafficking laws and operated squadrons of ships in the Atlantic and Indian ...

Black people in Britain during the Atlantic slave trade era. videoBlack people in ... films in which historian David Olusoga looks at the abolition of slavery in Britain. Guy Fawkes: Why do ...

Venice transformed from a modest refuge into a dominant Mediterranean power. Despite various crises and encircling ...