A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...
insider.si.edu: Extending the frontiers : essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database / edited by David Eltis and David Richardson
"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...
Extending the frontiers : essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database / edited by David Eltis and David Richardson
THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF THE ...
Science News: An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people
An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people
The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. It represents one of the largest forced migrations, displacing 12.5 million Africans from their homelands. The trade was also ...
insider.si.edu: From the galleons to the highlands : slave trade routes in the Spanish Americas edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
From the galleons to the highlands : slave trade routes in the Spanish Americas edited by Alex Borucki, David Eltis, and David Wheat
Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution on March 25.
MSN: International day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition 2025
Across the globe, August 23 is recognised as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. UNESCO established the day in 1997 to honour the millions affected by the ...
International day for the remembrance of the slave trade and its abolition 2025
The Conversation: Rereading Rembrandt: how the slave trade helped establish the golden age of Dutch painting
The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the transatlantic slave trade. But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the ...
Rereading Rembrandt: how the slave trade helped establish the golden age of Dutch painting
Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...
WHENEVER the topic of slavery is raised, it is usually the Trans-Atlantic trade, yet it is only a fragment of a much longer story of human bondage and suffering. There are also popular misconceptions ...
Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help descendants of enslaved people reconstruct their family histories. Strontium is an ...