For over sixty years during the nineteenth century, following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously ...

Victoria and Albert Museum, London Equiano wrote to Wedgwood to get his support on a visit to Bristol, as he was concerned about being press-ganged (forcibly taken to serve on a ship) and sought ...

Douglass would continue to give speeches for the rest of his life and would become a leading spokesperson for the abolition of slavery and for ... to live with a ship carpenter named Hugh Auld.

Centuries-old British maritime group Lloyd's Register has apologised for its historical role in transatlantic slavery, after launching an investigation into its past.