In his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano described his first encounter with such a device in the mid-1700s. . . "I had seen a black woman slave as I came through the house, who was cooking the dinner ...

Authored by Samuel Sewall and presented by a Boston publisher in 1700, the pamphlet entitled The Selling of Joseph is a strong testament against slavery. It begins with a general statement and is ...

These churches were built in the 1600s and 1700s, and hundreds of slaves were owned by clergy and parishioners. Reverend John ...

Stick a pin in a map of Liverpool and chances are you will skewer a name linked to slavery. Between 1700 and 1820, many of the city's bigwigs were involved in the slave trade, exploiting the ...

Where to start? What about the flags that flew over the slave ships leaving Africa full of human cargo in the 1700s? Which ones were those? What flag was flying over the slave auction center in ...

Britain is facing growing calls to open the door to reparatory justice for its role in the transatlantic slave trade. It peaked in the 1700s and saw millions of Africans forcibly transported to ...

In the year 1700, an English ship mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West. The vessel had been making a return trip from Jamaica after transporting nearly two hundred people to the Caribbean to be ...

The Atlantic economy in the 1700s was founded on slave labour. Key features of the industrial revolution included: Products were made in factories instead of at home Workers used machines instead ...

saw 125 slave ships sail to West Africa. A series of portraits of black Lancastrians from the 1700s, including an escaped young slave, have been commissioned for the display. The exhibition will ...