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

The term “transatlantic slave trade” has long been established ... While historically accurate in reference to the triangular trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this term ...

This time the volcano Krakatoa, in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, erupted. News of the colossal eruption was ...

The student body is 91 percent African American ... side of this “triangular trade,” during which millions of Africans died, was known as the Middle Passage. Until the slave trade was banned ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

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 ...

Slavery was a long-standing practice in Africa, with systems of servitude and slavery existing in many regions before the transatlantic slave trade emerged in the 16th century. In the same vein ...

Georgia Brabec, a first-year masters student in art history and architecture and another student of Nelson’s, talked about ...

Despite their significance, they face persistent challenges like limited financing and trade barriers. Access Bank, operating across 24 African markets, is championing solutions to revolutionise cross ...