The Baule
Baule, an African people inhabiting Côte d’Ivoire between the Comoé and Bandama rivers. The Baule are an Akan group, speaking the Tano language of the...
Author : joe bodego
Ndebele
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Ndebele, also called Transvaal Ndebele, any of several Bantu-speaking African peoples who live primarily in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa. The Ndebele...
The Boer
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The Boer, (Dutch: “husbandman,” or “farmer”), was a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal...
Cape Verde
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The history of Cape Verde is typical and yet unique for its location. For three centuries, the islands were a setting for the transatlantic slave...
Igbo
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Igbo, also called Ibo, are people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speaks Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family....
William B. Gould
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William B. Gould was born into slavery in Wilmington, N.C. in 1837. During the Civil War, Gould escaped with seven others on September 21, 1862,...
SÃO TOMÉ ISLAND
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São Tomé Island, located in the Gulf of Guinea, is the largest island of São Tomé and Príncipe. With its rich history, diverse culture, and...
Where did American slavery come from?
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Sweeping questions like that rarely yield clear answers, least of all from nuance-loving historians like me. In my classes, I point carefully to Classical, Christian,...
Iberian Slave Trade
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Portugal and Spain, under the same monarch until 1640, were the pioneers of the transatlantic slave trade. Iberian ports, such as Lisbon, Seville, and Cádiz,...