Slave trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade (1501-1867), sold at least 12.5 million black Africans as slaves to work for white land-owners on the other side of the ocean. Of these 1.8 million died at sea. Most of the rest were worked to death within seven years in the sugar cane fields of Brazil and the Caribbean.

J. Marion Sims is remembered as the father of modern gynecology. Forgotten are the mothers of that medical specialty — the enslaved women whose bodies were used for the advancement of his research.

Slaves working in cotton fields

When arguments for and against slavery were raised, science was actually used to support to keep slavery as it was just scientifically sound.....

Even in its grainy, black-and-white nascence nearly 200 years ago, it was clear that photography would be a game-changing invention.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. - Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Despite what the naïve and the chronically optimistic like to believe, human nature does not change; individual people are the same today as they were at the beginning of human civilization some twelve thousand years ago. And while we have made…

“While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated and most of the children born to the women were …

Hundreds of men and boys were rescued from a "torture house" in northern Nigeria that was advertised to be an Islamic school.

The transportation of enslaved Africans by slave traders from Africa to the Americas is known as the transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade primarily occurred throughout the 16th to 19th centuries. The main Atlantic slave trading nations were Portugal, Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. These European countries would either capture or buy Africans from their countries and bring them back to Europe to be sold and put to work in mines and plantations (AD).

By Sudie Hofmann At the time of George Washington's death, the Washingtons enslaved 318 people of African descent at Mount Vernon, according to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. But you would not know it from the main tour, nor from the brochure. In fact, most visitors, including schoolchildren, can spend hours admiring the Mount Vernon mansion, fine furniture, and manicured lawns without considering that it was all paid for with forced labor.

reBlogged from Robert Goldwater Library blog: Posted by Ross Day on September 28, 2006 at 08:58 PM International Slavery Museum The photo (c Bob Duck via Flickr) is from the slave market memorial in Stonetown, Zanzibar You don't always get...

The origins of the Trans-Atlantic Trade of enslaved people, from Portuguese exploration and trade to shipment to early sugar plantations, is complex.

Zora Neale Hurston's searing book about Cudjo Lewis, brought to Alabama aboard the Clotilda—the last known US slave ship—took nearly 90 years to find a publisher.

Sculpture Kwame Akoto-Bamfo Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a Ghanaian sculptor. His outdoor sculpture ‘Nkyinkim’ is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice that opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Kwame Akoto-Bamfo: Thank you all for your unending support and […]