PITTSBURGH — Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guinea ship, as the vessels were also known, ...

A recently discovered, 18th-century satire petitions the British Parliament not to end the African slave trade — for the sake of African sharks.... Slave Trade Satire Shows Dark Abolitionist 'Humor' A ...