Category : International

In the 19th century, Senegal was a focal point of European colonial ambitions, particularly by the French, who sought to expand their influence and control...

In 1794, the São José, a Portuguese slave ship, was wrecked near the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Destined for Brazil, the ship...

The recent unearthing of the Portuguese slave ship São José’s wreckage off Cape Town has spotlighted East Africa’s overlooked involvement in the transatlantic slave trade....

Mary Seacole’s reputation after the Crimean War (1853-1856) rivaled Florence Nightingale’s. Unlike Nightingale, Seacole also had the challenge to have her skills put to proper...

The Arab slave trade was the practice of slavery in the Arab world, mainly in Western Asia, North Africa, Southeast Africa, the Horn of Africa,...

Thomas Thistlewood (16 March 1721 ‒ 30 November 1786) was a British citizen who migrated to western Jamaica where he became a plantation overseer and...

Colonialism, which cited the system of political and economic power by one state over another, had a gigantic impact on Africa. The Bondage existed in...

The year was 1914 and while the war was escalating in Europe, a different struggle took root in Canada. Young black men determined to serve...