African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

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Life at sea was “like being in prison, with a chance of drowning”, 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson reckoned.

The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633. Six years later, the Dutch and North ...

The fan who fell out of the right field stands and onto the warning track during the April 30 Pirates-Cubs game in Pittsburgh has been identified as Kavan Markwood. "Everyone at South Allegheny ...

2 hours and 15 minutes, including one intermission. Gilbert & Sullivan’s pirate ship docks in New Orleans in this jazzy-bluesy vision of the crowd-pleasing classic, in an outrageously clever ...

While the Mughal rule had considerably weakened and its influenced waned due to the impact of the British colonial rule in India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor, stoo ...