News tagged with slave trade

Archaeologists unearth slave burial ground on St. Helena

The tiny island of St Helena, 1,000 miles off the coast of south-west Africa, acted as the landing place for many of the slaves, captured by the Royal Navy during the suppression of the slave trade between 1840 and 1872. ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Web site links African-Americans to ancestors' voyage

In a major advance in genealogical research, African-Americans will be able to trace the routes of slave ships that transported 12.5 million of their ancestors from Africa as early as the 16th century.

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New research project to examine the trans-Atlantic slave trade

he transatlantic slave trade represents one of the most traumatic chapters in world history and is now widely recognised as a crime against humanity. EUROTAST is a new European-funded research network that will bring together ...

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created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1