For well over 300 years, European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. The first European nation to engage...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade had three stages STAGE 1 Slave ships from Britain left ports like London, Liverpool, and Bristol for West Africa carrying goods...
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European traders started to get involved in the Slave Trade. European traders had previously been interested in African nations...
The establishment of settlements in the Americas during the 17th century marked the beginning of the plantation system, a significant development in the history of...
The term “mulatto” has a complex and uncertain origin, with various theories proposed by scholars and historians. The English term is derived from the Spanish...
A Brutal Mark of Ownership in the Transatlantic Slave Trade The transatlantic slave trade, spanning from the mid-16th century to the 1860s, forcibly transported over...
In the 17th century, the establishment of European settlements in the Americas marked the beginning of a significant shift in labor practices and the economy....
The recent admission by Jack Daniel’s whiskey makers that a Tennessee slave, Nearis Green, was behind its legendary recipe has shed new light on the...
Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble is a physician and historian of medicine. Raised in a poor neighborhood in West Philadelphia in the 1950s, she has become...
A Life Dedicated to Abolition and Social Reform James Forten, a prominent businessman, abolitionist, and advocate for social justice, was born free in Philadelphia in...