History's detective: Jane Landers and her team rescue enslaved Africans' stories from oblivion
April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 17 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news:
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History's detective: Jane Landers and her team rescue enslaved Africans' stories from oblivion
The global trafficking of Africans was started by Portuguese traders in 1441, and by the time it was done in the early 1900s, nearly 30 million people had been trafficked or born into slavery in what we now know as the United States, according to Vanderbilt professor . . .
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History's detective: Jane Landers and her team rescue enslaved Africans' stories from oblivion
The global trafficking of Africans was started by Portuguese traders in 1441, and by the time it was done in the early 1900s, nearly 30 million people had been trafficked or born into slavery in what we now know as the United States, according to Vanderbilt professor . . .