Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Elmina was the first of many trading posts built by Europeans along Africa's western coast that would also come to export slaves. The well-armed fort provided a secure harbor for Portuguese (and ...

But that's not the way slavery was established in colonial America ... many Africans and poor whites -- most of the laborers came from the English working class -- stood on the same ground.

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

They came from Langholm ... a ship's captain in the slave trade from Liverpool.These decorative glass beads were used to ease the passage of traders mainly across Africa. Similar beads are ...