From February 8 to 23, the Firehall Arts Centre is presenting Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade: a sharp, satirical ...

In 1698, the English Parliament ruled that any British subject could trade in slaves. Over the first 50 years of the 18th century, the number of Africans brought to British colonies on British ...

Though smaller in scale than Britain, Spain and other European colonial empires, Sweden had several colonies around the world ...

Acclaimed Igbo historian Adiele Afigbo described the slave trade in south-eastern Nigeria which lasted until the late 1940s and early 1950s as one of the best kept secrets of the British colonial ...

click image for close-up Painted in 1840 during a time when slavery was still legal in French colonies, The Slave Trade by Auguste-Francois Biard is a strong statement against the institution.

From the 1650s to 1776, parts of the Americas and coastal regions of West Africa were under British authority and connected ...

The colonies thrived on trade, importing goods from the mother country and exporting raw materials like tobacco, fur and lumber. Dutch traders and British ships dominated the waters, creating ...