The video explains how sugar demand, European expansion, plantation economics, coastal trade networks, and legal slavery ...

We are not exactly sure how much of a victory the United Nations’ recognition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” really is, given that the General Assembly ...

Why focus just on the transatlantic slave trade? Because the United Nations is engaged in a long-running con to extract reparations from the West by accusing it, and specifically the United States, of ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

The slave trade wasn’t just about transporting captured African people across the Atlantic. This was only the middle leg of a three-part journey: Traders at ports within the British Isles would export ...