Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

It comes after concerns were expressed that some Chinese manufacturing could be being performed by slave labour ... ships as he pledges to defend trade routes around the globe.

writing how “we visited Mombasa’s Old Town and climbed the worn stairs of Fort Jesus, first built by the Portuguese to consolidate trade routes along the Indian ... European slave trade across the ...

we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th Century BCE by traders from the mainland in search of new commercial outposts in the Mediterranean. So, who were these ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...

Türk noted a European Union statement in 2023 profoundly regretting the “untold suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 as the ...