transatlantic slave trade: References & Edit History

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Modified link of Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Oct 25, 2026
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Aug 28, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Bitesize - The transatlantic slave trade overview. May 04, 2026
Add new Web site: National Museums Liverpool - The transatlantic slave trade. Feb 06, 2026
Map added. Aug 04, 2025
Cross-references added; description of Zong massacre corrected. Jul 25, 2025
Link added. Mar 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Royal Museums Greenwich - The history of the transatlantic slave trade. Sep 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Slavery and Remembrance - Transatlantic Slave Trade. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Scholars at HARVARD - The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades (PDF). May 07, 2024
Add new Web site: EHNE Digital Encyclopedia of European History - The Atlantic Slave Trade. Dec 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Florida State College at Jacksonville Pressbooks - The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Oct 10, 2023
Media added. Aug 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Encyclopedia Virginia - The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: National Park Service - African American Heritage & Ethnography - The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Apr 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Statistics LibreTexts - The African Slave trade and the Atlantic World. Dec 04, 2022
Add new Web site: Lowcountry Digital History Initiative - The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Aug 23, 2022
Article revised and expanded. Aug 18, 2021
Add new Web site: Our Migration Story - From Slavery to Freedom: J. Gronniosaw's 'Narrative'. Apr 06, 2020
Media added. Jan 03, 2020
Removed the phrase "Most historians believe that" from the statement "Most historians believe that the slave trade had devastating effects in Africa." Sep 07, 2018
Corrected display issue. Jan 05, 2018
Add new Web site: United Nations Educational, Scientfic and Cultural Organization - Transatlantic Slave Trade. Apr 07, 2017
Add new Web site: South Africa History Online - The Atlantic slave trade. Apr 07, 2017
Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Apr 07, 2017
Add new Web site: History of Islam - The Atlantic Slave Trade. Jul 20, 2016
Add new Web site: Voyages - The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Jun 28, 2016
Added a description of the role of Europeans and Africans in the capture of those who were enslaved. Oct 07, 2015
New article added. Jul 09, 2015
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