Modern slavery is very cheap, and Kevin Bales has argued that this has made modern slavery even worse than that of Atlantic Slave Trade: In the United States before the Civil War, the average ...

Excerpt taken from Hugh Thomas, The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade. There was no hope of returning home; the vast majority of slaves were stuck in the Americas for the rest of their lives.

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade. Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English ...

The creation of this art exhibition is the subject of the NAACP Image Award-nominated PBS American Masters Series documentary ...

It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last few years however, ...