INDEX: The Atlantic Slave Trade Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) ...

This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of ...

The slave trade stimulated British manufacturing and industry through the demand for goods such as plantation utensils and clothing needed for enslaved people and estates. The African historian ...

The slave trade made many people very rich but ruined ... It is estimated that British ships transported 3.4 million people from Africa, of whom 2.6 million survived the journey and were enslaved.

This is why more encompassing terminology has been used to denote Lloyd’s founders links to the slave trade or the wider slave economy. [4] [3] Nick Draper, ‘The City of London and slavery: evidence ...

Following the termination of the international slave trade in 1808, an extensive domestic trade opened between the older slave states such as Virginia and Maryland, and the new territories ...

Feeling at home in Benin, Anelka decided to settle there last July and open a travel agency. She hopes to become a citizen by ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

Lloyd’s was the global centre for insuring that industry. We are deeply sorry for the Lloyd’s market’s participation in the transatlantic slave trade. It is part of our shared history that caused ...

JOHN WILSON and HANS OLSEN, who stand charged with voluntarily serving on board of the slave bark Cora ... made before him May 4; could not identify the party who had taken the oath; his attention ...

Calls for the UK to provide reparations for its historical role in the slave trade have reignited ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth countries on Friday. While Sir Keir Starmer said reparatory ...