Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a slave fortress that played a large part in the capture and transportation of enslaved Africans. Profitable trade in West Africa led Europeans to set up permanent ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.

The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America, the Caribbean and North America. Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in ...

More Blacks have come to America voluntarily since the 1980s, whether it be from West Africa, from the Caribbean, than ever came in the slave trade. And what does she say there? She says they ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...

The 38th African Union (AU) Summit due to convene in Addis Ababa next week has identified "Justice for Africans and People of ...

Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a Royal Navy squadron was stationed off the West African coast to intercept and capture slaving vessels of other nations. The West ...

After his recent Grammys stunt, rapper Kanye West has made a string of controversial statements, from urging President Donald ...