TAG: Transatlantic slave trade

Letter from Ghana November/December 2021

Life Outside the Castle

At Christiansborg Castle, a community that embodied the complexity of the transatlantic slave trade is being uncovered by descendants of those who created it

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(Photo by Joli Gbebleou-Sleem)
Digs & Discoveries July/August 2015

Finding Lost African Homelands

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(Courtesy Hannes Schroeder, Photo: Jay B. Haviser, St Maarten Archaeological Centre)
Around the World July 1, 2011

BRAZIL

Digs being conducted on Rio de Janeiro's waterfront in advance of the 2016 Olympics have revealed the remains of Valongo Wharf, where as many as a million African slaves were unloaded and traded in the early 19th century.

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