For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

More than 800 advertisements for runaway slaves, collected from 18th century British newspapers, have now been shared online, allowing the public to find out more about one of the darkest chapters ...

During the voyage of the voyage, not only trade products such as spices, silk and mineral resources, but also “slaves” for trade were transported by ship. A movie of ' slave ship ' of 3D model ...

Workers installing a water pipeline in Croatia made an unexpected discovery, unearthing the remains of an 18th-century wooden boat.The discovery was made this spring in the southern Croatian city of ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

The slave trade contributed significantly to the commercial and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Cities such as Liverpool and Amsterdam grew wealthy as a result of the trade in ...

The Crown began the wholesale transportation of African slaves to work in the colonies. Slaves in the British colonies in the Caribbean worked on the sugar plantations which helped make the empire ...

Church of England admits ‘real shame for us’ over slavery ties. Church plans to spend $121m to take action to address ‘our shameful past’ for involvement in the 18th-century slave trade.

The 1st Duke of Portland, Henry Bentinck, was a governor of Jamaica in the 18th century and owned several hundred slaves. His descendants, the Bentincks and Cavendish-Bentincks family, ...