“Slave Routes: A Global Vision” is an ... stemming from the global tragedy of the slave trade and slavery. Aimed at a general audience, it provides an overview of the massive deportation of African ...

Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, gave a keynote at the United Nations’ annual ceremony in observance of the ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade ... of prized African gold, and to locate a possible sea route to valuable ...

Millions of enslaved Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved people. The wealth to be made ...

It is about taking action today to dismantle the structures that continue to hold back people of African descent. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act ... the UNESCO "Routes of Enslaved Peoples ...

Captured far from the African ... work in the trade business in the West Indies, then in London. In 1773, he took part in an expedition to try to discover the Northwest Passage, a route through ...

Foreigners from “far away” did play a role as a market for slaves, but those foreigners were Arabs fresh from the Muslim conquest of North Africa who created trade routes deep into the rest of ...

Ancient Ghana derived power and wealth from gold and the introduction of the camel during the Trans-Saharan trade ... The route taken by traders of the Maghreb to Ghana started in North Africa ...

Being a landlocked country did not stop Switzerland from playing its part in the transatlantic slave trade triangle, linking West Africa, America and Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries.