The transatlantic slave trade, spanning four centuries, generated immense wealth for Western nations and played a critical role in the accumulation of capital, reflecting the brutal reality of a ...

Rule, Britannia! was first performed in 1740, a time when Britain was still heavily involved in the abhorrent transatlantic ...

James Walvin, a British historian of slavery and the slave trade, presents this moment in Charlotte, North Carolina—when ...

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Part Two,” in London, he and Zendaya chose a vintage Thierry Mugler robot suit reminiscent of the Fritz Lang sci-fi classic ...

Ph.D. candidate Elysia Petras and archaeologist Dr. Brandi MacDonald recently discovered 15 shards of Afro-Caribbean pottery ...

Klaus-Michael Kuehne, born in 1937, has more money than Ken Griffin, MacKenzie Scott, or François Pinault. Just don’t ask him ...

Bosma's book The World of Sugar explores the damaging legacy of ... women and children were captured in Africa and ...

Forty–two slave ships cleared out from Liverpool in the period 1721–30 ... Content may require purchase if you do not have access.) To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure ...

The poet and author’s new book, Salvage, examines colonial-era English literature and a life spent reading its heirs ...

It is easy to assume that there is not much to be said about the history of the Atlantic before 12 October 1492, when ...

Crowded slave ships, like the one in this 18th-century ... The York Factory General Account Book for 1688-89, notes a transaction of “one short English Gun given for a slave man, One Long ...