A museum that was founded using profits from the transatlantic slave trade is shining a light on this aspect of its history in a new exhibition.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23749817.museums-slave-trade-origins-explained-new-exhibition/?ref=rss

As I found in my research, it was African demand that was shaping the success of the colony and its mission to shift the coast's commerce away from the slave trade.

Source: https://allafrica.com/stories/202306210006.html

“A significant adverse consequence of the slave trade was the two-way trans-continental spread of infectious diseases with dire consequences in most cases,” she said.

Source: https://realnewsmagazine.net/health-day-experts-advise-fg-on-commitment-to-uhc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=health-day-experts-advise-fg-on-commitment-to-uhc

Cape Coast Castle was a "slave castle" used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Source: https://wtop.com/government/2023/02/jill-biden-makes-6th-visit-to-africa-her-1st-as-first-lady/

In 2020, the team said they had identified 49 ISIS figures who built and managed the slave trade - and nearly 170 slave owners who operated within it.

Source: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/11536629/raped-isis-beatle-aine-davis-jihadi-paul-yazidis/

In the 17th century, it grew to become the largest port in France, and was central in the Atlantic slave trade.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-12527929/Nantes-isnt-natural-rugby-territory-theyre-trying-Gritty-Brittany-city-Frances-largest-port-centre-shipbuilding-Irelands-fans-enjoying-sights-ahead-win-Tonga.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=14

Joyful and celebratory it also made you examine the history of Tate and its relationship with the slave trade as well as the roles we all play in society.

Source: https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/night-and-day-at-the-museum-9304795/

Learn about the horrors committed in the transatlantic slave trade and the grave-robbing tendencies of Harvard scientists in this sometimes-squeamish goldmine of fun facts.

Source: https://www.themiamihurricane.com/2023/02/11/5-nonfiction-books-for-the-fiction-fan/

Owning seven slaves of his own, he was directly involved in the Transatlantic slave trade, and as governor, legalized slavery in Massachusetts.

Source: https://harvardindependent.com/2023/03/when-it-feels-wrong-to-love-your-home/

Some put this down as a factor of the colonial mentality still ravaging African leaders centuries after the slave trade and decades after these countries had obtained what is derisively referred to as “flag independence” from their colonial masters.

Source: https://www.thenews-chronicle.com/tinubu-why-abeokuta-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tinubu-why-abeokuta-again

Support for making Patois Jamaica’s official language gained momentum when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak refused to apologize for his country’s role in the slave trade and would not commit to paying reparations.

Source: https://jamaicans.com/new-york-times-writer-calls-out-jamaicas-hesitance-to-make-patois-an-official-language/

The city then became a centre of the slave trade, with the support of both the Oba of Benin and his son, the Oba of Lagos.

Source: https://thewillnews.com/we-cant-continue-to-tolerate-xenophobia-ethnic-profiling-within-our-shores/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-cant-continue-to-tolerate-xenophobia-ethnic-profiling-within-our-shores

The Dutch government issued a formal apology last year for its role in the slave trade.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/08/st-kitts-and-nevis-pm-says-its-not-totally-free-under-king-charles-18745232/

“There is no doubt that the centuries of investment in African slavery, and the slave trade, contributed hugely to building the status, prestige and fortune of today’s royal family,” she said.

Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41110573.html

“These connections go back hundreds of years,” says Brooke Newman, a historian at Virginia Commonwealth University whose own archival research of King William III’s personal investment in the transatlantic slave trade.

Source: https://time.com/6275179/king-charles-iii-ancestors-slavery/

The slave trade was banned in 1807 and all slaves in the colonies freed 31 years later.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12577491/If-British-Empire-evil-did-countries-apply-join-Cambridge-historian-ROBERT-TOMBS-challenges-say-ashamed-it.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

The slave trade was first initiated by the Portuguese and the Spanish to supply labour for newly developed sugar plantations in their American territories.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-history/britain-monarchy-profited-slavery-slave-trade-8545631/

They are no different from the chiefs and kings who sold Africans to the Atlantic slave trade between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Source: http://nigeriancurrent.com/2023/01/06/professor-what/

Thousands of African people were brought over as part of the transatlantic slave trade, but apart from a few well-known figures, little is known about how they lived once they arrived here.

Source: https://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/things-to-do-this-week-in-london-4-10-september-2023

With one exception, they had nothing whatever to do with slavery or the slave trade.

Source: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-guardians-self-laceration-is-embarrassing-to-watch/