One Bay Area man who plays an unusual West African instrument recently discovered ... help us through the pains they were going through, slavery and hardship, to have hope," said Webster.

When Europeans arrived along the West African coast, slavery already existed on the continent. However, in his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson points out that slavery in Africa and ...

Millions of enslaved Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved people. The wealth to be made ...

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...

Florence Price took the traditions of classical music and combined them with West African ... States by slaves who were forced to work on plantations. Banned from playing musical instruments ...