The Transatlantic Slave Trade

EJI’s new report examines the legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a horrific era during which nearly 13 million African people were kidnapped and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean.

American port cities all along the Eastern Seaboard were shaped by the Transatlantic Slave Trade—which created generational wealth for Europeans and white Americans and funded American industries that still thrive today—but few have acknowledged their history of enslavement.