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 ...

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

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

Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 (2019), pp. 173-248 (76 pages) The Trans-Atlantic slave trade’s legal institution from a regional economic practice ...

“Gorée and the trans-Atlantic slave trade are not just a part of African history. They are a part of American history as well,” Yellen said later in brief remarks during her visit.

London City Hall “When we talk about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, we’re speaking to people’s history and not just Black people’s histories,” Brooks tells the Guardian ’s Lanre Bakare.

Once a city that thrived on the trade of human lives, Nantes now seeks to preserve their memory. Through this memorial, its museum and public dialogue, it continues to confront its past - one name ...

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

A Ghana reparations summit agrees on a global fund to compensate Africans for the slave trade The Accra Reparation Conference adds to the demands for reparations after millions of Africans were ...

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