Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

There is not much flash or flair in the making of Hardcore History—he doesn’t include sound effects or bring guests into his ...

Thousands of more enslaved men, women and children would experience the same cruel journey from the mid-Atlantic and Upper South to New Orleans over the next 20 years until the evil slave trade is ...

Singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African ...

As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...