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 18th century Spain, Muslim slaves were seen as a corporation, according to Daniel Hershenzon, associate professor at the Department of Literature, Cultures and Languages in a presentation ...

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 ...

Archaeologists and divers from across continents believe they have struck history gold, confirming the discovery of a sunken slave ship.

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 ...

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

By the end of the 18th century Britain had come to dominate the trade, with around 150 slave ships leaving Liverpool, Bristol, and London each year. How many people were enslaved?

In the late 18th century, an anti-slavery movement began to gain momentum in British society, organised at first by a group of Quakers, supported largely by Baptists and Methodists and eventually ...

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.