"The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. Conquest in the poem is not portrayed as a way for the white race to gain individual or national wealth or power. Instead, the speaker defines white imperialism and colonialism in moral terms, as a “burden” that the white race must take up to help the non-white races develop civilisation.

The Atlantic slave trade was a significant part of history that spanned several centuries and both white and black deographics were enslaved. What does the latest research tell us about the numbers of whites and blacks enslaved?