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 ...

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.

Archaeologists confirm the Camargo slave shipwreck in Brazil, revealing untold truths of the Atlantic slave trade and its ...

On a typical day, over 1,000 visitors consult the website Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities. Database screenshot Credit: ...

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

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 ...

Two necessary conditions for the existence of New World slavery and the slave trade are an acute labour shortage and an elastic supply of coerced labour. Though the former condition has been the ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.