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 ...

Even before the publication in 1969 of Philip Curtin’s seminal book, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, historians and others have been engaged in debates and analyses of the effects of the ...

A researcher has discovered the identity of the last-known survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Redoshi, later given the slave name Sally Smith, was kidnapped at the ...

The Atlantic slave trade during its heyday and the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to ...

Estimates vary widely, but somewhere between 10 million and 28 million Africans are believed to have been shipped across the Atlantic between the 15th and 19th centuries. Many died on the way ...

Samuel L. Jackson Talks New Docuseries ‘Enslaved’ and Exploring the History of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Actor Samuel L. Jackson and his wife LaTanya Richardson Jackson talk about the new ...

In my Jan. 29 newsletter, I wrote a little about the development of the domestic slave trade in the United States, apropos of my Sunday Review story on the SlaveVoyages database and the effort to ...

Author Richard Reddie writes about the Atlantic slave trade, how the Bible was used by Christians on both sides of the issue and the abolitionists who sought to bring it to an end.