The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...

The slave trade had long-lasting negative effects on the islands of the Caribbean ... sugar production on Dominica, a former British colony in the Caribbean Another adverse affect of the slave ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the ... toward ...

Almost every Caribbean island was covered with sugar plantations ... the Navy was still needed to protect these colonies and British shipping. The trade in enslaved people contributed to the ...

Around 1750, the British ... or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies.

On two remote islands in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), conservationists, scientists, and local partners are working ...

during a meeting of descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean at U.N. headquarters (AP) Turk noted a European Union statement in 2023 that expressed ...

This undated photo provided by Gabrielle Blackwood shows moderator Laura Trevelyan during a meeting of descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean at U.N ...