For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

An illustration showing how enslaved Africans were stored in the cargo hold of slave ships for transportation across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. On the coast of Western Africa ...

She is an economic historian of Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World, with a particular focus on the transatlantic slave trade. Her current book project, "Supplying the Slave Trade", looks at ...

He is currently at work on a census of the Atlantic slave trade, a book on slave ship revolts, an analysis of the identity of captive Africans put on board slave ships, and is co-editing the ...

Located on the Windward Coast of West Africa, the region now known as Sierra Leone was a key player in the trans-Atlantic slave ... before being forced onto slave ships for the deadly journey ...

The slave-ships still fulfilled the first two legs, but often came home in ballast, while an important bilateral trade between Britain and the trans-Atlantic colonies developed, shipping plantation ...

This book shows that the first generation of Africans taken to English and Dutch colonies before 1660 were captured by pirates from these countries from slave ships coming from Kongo ... to the ...