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Slave trade

The Missing

From advertisements taken out in African-American newspapers by former slaves searching for relatives. The earliest ads appeared in 1863. Villanova University and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia,…

Gateway to Freedom

by Eric Foner,

The origins of the Underground Railroad

Smuggler Nation

by Peter Andreas,

By Peter Andreas, from his book out this month from Oxford University Press. Andreas is a professor of political science at Brown University. The agents moved in to seize the…

Notes from Elmina IV

Art by Radcliffe Bailey,

The cruise of the Caribbee

by Thomas V. Briggs,

A chapter of unwritten history

The last slave ship

by S.H.M. (Samuel Hawkins Marshall) Byers,

The slave-trade of to-day. Conclusion.–The islands of doom

by Henry Woodd Nevinson,

They stand in the Gulf of Guinea–those two islands of San Thomé and Principe where the slaves die–about 150 miles from the nearest coast at the Gaboon River in French…