Penn State Joins Efforts To Research Era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
University Park, Pa.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade — the forced migration of approximately 12 million people, and the death of many more in war and captivity, over the course of 400 years — changed the face of the world, creating the Western Hemisphere we know today with its legacy of racial problems. Six out of every seven persons who crossed the Atlantic to take up life in the Americas in the 300 years before the American Revolution were African slaves.
Penn State’s George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center is leading the university’s efforts as one of five institutions involved with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a multinational collaboration devoted to research on and better teaching about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
