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Discover what it's like to sail aboard the 44-passenger Harmony G along the coast of West Africa and up the Gambia River.
but don’t miss the chance to delve into the area’s transatlantic slave trade at the 15th-century Elmina Castle; witness colourful kingfishers, bee-eaters and Abyssinian rollers in the little ...
A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...
Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...
Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...
Also documented are details on nearly 221,000 individuals involved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including ship captains and the humans they trafficked. The project's website, launched in ...
Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...
Dakar, Senegal — Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and ...