In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

Britain became the leading slave-trading nation at the peak of the trade in the 1780s. It is estimated that between 1600 and 1800, British ships transported over 3 million Africans across the ...

Profits from the slave trade were invested in the development of British industries. Canals and railways too were built as a result of investment of profits from the slave trade. Wealth generated ...

videoBlack people in Britain during the Atlantic slave trade era In this short film, historian David Olusoga looks at the lives of Black people in Britain in the 1600s and 1700s. Britain's ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from ...