The slave trade made many people very rich but also ruined the lives of those captured into slavery. As resistance grew and profit declined, the trade was finally abolished. Included is a map showing where the slaves were traded and...

Opposition to slavery was growing as slaves rebelled, mutinied, or ran escaped from owners. View these resistance strategies through the following primary sources that include art, original maps, testimonies, newspapers, and letters.

Learn about plantation life during the 18th and 19th centuries by viewing images, maps, and text material in this virtual exhibition from the British Library. Writer Mike Phillips gives his personal interpretation of this exhibit on...

A brief but sobering look at the slave trade and the number of slaves in the New World in the 16th, 17th, and early 17th centuries. Slaves could be found from Nova Scotia to Argentina.

See how the increase of slavery stimulated the economy on three continents through the transatlantic triangular trade.

An excellent set of resources on slavery and the slave trade. Looks at artists' perceptions, interviews with historians and others, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, trade in the Indian Ocean, resistance and abolition, trade in the...

Learn about some of the African history that led to the triangular slave trade. A colorful map on this page also highlights some of the important regions of Africa during the 1600s-1800s.