Jane Landers Rescues Enslaved Africans' Stories

Vanderbilt University

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 and historian Jane Landers. Their stories have been lost to history-until now. Landers has made it her life's work to uncover and share them with the world.

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