The slave ship in a London courtyard
(Image credit: Tim Bowditch) By Melissa Chemam13th October 2022 A new installation of 140 blocks of wood summons up a forgotten history, writes Melissa Chemam. Laid out on the stone courtyard […]
How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Created the African Diaspora
The forced transport of enslaved people from Africa led to populations of Black people throughout North and South America and other parts of the world. NICHOLAS BOSTON FEB 3, 2022 […]
The last known ship of the US slave trade
(Image credit: Zoey Goto) By Zoey Goto8th February 2022 The discovery of the remains of the Clotilda, 160 years after it sank, brings new life and interest to the settlement built by the original survivors. “It’s crazy to think they would have sailed right past here,” Darron Patterson said, pulling his […]
Malik Ambar – The African King who ruled in India
Malik Ambar was a prime minister and general of African descent who served the Ahmadnagar Sultanate. He is regarded as a pioneer in guerilla warfare in the region along with […]
Diving into the past: The Black divers searching for slave shipwrecks
Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN • Updated 4th August 2021 Editor’s Note —(CNN) — As he slipped through the kelp forest to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Kamau Sadiki’s eyes hooked onto something resembling […]
Church of England launches investigation into slave trade links of its £9.2billion investment fund that pays Archbishop of Canterbury’s £85,000-a-year wages
Monday, Jun 21st 2021 Church’s historic assets may have been built on proceeds of slavery, report said Particular concern over a fund known as Queen Anne’s Bounty, meant for poor […]
DW ENGLISH LIVE DocFilm – Slavery Routes – A Short History of Human Trafficking: 1375 – 1620: For All the Gold of the World
sorry, cannot copy the video link. please go to https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097 interesting report.
‘My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves’
19 July 2020 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings […]
East Africa’s forgotten slave trade
Over several centuries countless East Africans were sold as slaves by Muslim Arabs to the Middle East and other places via the Sahara desert and Indian Ocean. Experts say it […]
The jokes in parliament prove British leaders have no idea how bad slavery was – and why people are protesting
One way to understand what it was really like is to recall how Isis enslaved the Yazidis in northern Iraq and Syria in 2014, murdering men, women and children and […]
Britain was built on the backs, and souls, of slaves
The UK owes a debt to descendants of enslaved people and to taxpayers whose money was used to compensate slave traders and owners. by Imran Khan 18 hours ago A […]
It is time British schoolchildren were taught properly about the slave trade
The issue of Britain’s past has been the subject of many recent conversations with contacts all over the world, writes Bel Trew @beltrew 2 days ago Protesters throw a statue […]
Muslims arrived in America 400 years ago as part of the slave trade and today are vastly diverse
Source: The Conversation By Saeed Ahmed Khan; Senior Lecturer, Wayne State University Most Americans say they don’t know a Muslim and that much of what they understand about Islam is from the […]
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed Exclusive: As the world ignores the ignominious 500th anniversary of the buying and selling of slaves between Africa and the […]
BBC Page: Slavery in Islam
Slaves were owned in all Islamic societies, both sedentary and nomadic, ranging from Arabia in the centre to North Africa in the west and to what is now Pakistan and […]
This Sierra Leonean man led the Amistad slave revolt and won his freedom in a U.S. court in 1841
by Farida Dawkins, September 13, 2018 Sengbe Pieh, in a 1839 portrait by Nathaniel Jocelyn Sengbe Pieh was an African slave who led an uprising on the Spanish slave […]
The forgotten anniversary: 500 years of Africa to America slave trade
Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed Almost completely ignored by the modern world, tis month marks the 500th anniversary of one of history’s most tragic […]
Arab Slave Trade
Slavery December 10, 2016 Alik Shahadah The History of Arab Slavery in Africa Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those […]
Assessing the Slave Trade
The Voyages Database The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes. A variable (Source) […]