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

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

Grammy-winning artist Ciara has been granted citizenship in Benin, becoming one of the first prominent individuals to benefit ...

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

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

The plaque outlining his role in the slave trade is installed despite being labelled "shameful". The Women of Llanrumney is set on a sugar plantation in 18th Century Jamaica. The stories of African ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- On this episode of Here and Now, we learn about the story behind the discovery of the single largest remaining trace of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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 ...

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.