In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

Domingues da Silva, who currently serves as host of the SlaveVoyages project, unpacked his findings on Brazil's 19th-century slave trade ... and the University of British Columbia, bestowing ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...

The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and the Slave Trade,” exposed Catalonia’s involvement in the slave trade in the 19th century ... who is of Ghanaian and British ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone ... suffering” caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 as the ...

Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank ...

UNITED NATIONS — (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William ... caused by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Union’s designation of 2025 ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...