Like George Morland's painting entitled The Slave Trade, the scene is set on the African coast ... Few patrons were willing to purchase a piece of art for their homes that depicted such cruelty.

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 ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art in Royal ... in the slave trade all experienced periods of rapid growth and increasing wealth during the 18th century. In 1672 the Royal Africa Company was formed ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / ARS, NY / Museum of Modern Art / SCALA ... come from Africa to live in the United States than during the centuries of the slave trade.

The transatlantic slave trade ... to deny people of African descent the opportunity to thrive. He called on governments to acknowledge the truth and finally honour the trade's legacy by taking ...

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 was passed in the United Kingdom on 25 March ...