Concerning the trade on this Coast, ... The Gold Coast has changed into a complete Slave Coast. - William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday.

Sadiq Khan has announced the launch of a new slavery memorial in Accra, Ghana as part of global remembrance project ...

The Brazilian slave-ship Henriqueta had no cause for alarm when it first spotted the British frigate Sybille early on September 6 1827, just off the west coast of Africa. Sybille was a sluggish 44 ...

USS Constellation played key role in ending transatlantic slave trade. ... It commanded the African squadron from 1859 to 1861, patrolling the West African coast and looking for illegal slave ships.

Costa Rica’s Shipwrecks Revealed as Slave Ships. Located near Cahuita National Park on Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast, the wrecks were long suspected to be pirate ships, due to their ...

From the beginning, the history of slavery in the Americas was mired in efforts to minimize its impact. Even before the end of the slave trade and of slavery, a robust and profoundly destructive ...

How did this day come about? In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly, through resolution 61/19, recognized that “the slave trade and slavery are among the worst violations of human rights ...