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 ...

Papers presented at a conference "The Atlantic Slave Trade: Who Gained and Who Lost?" held at the University of Rochester in October 1988. Contents Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic ...

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

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

Elon Musk's controversial claim on slavery sparks fiery backlash, as critics accuse him of rewriting history in a misguided ...

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

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 ...

A statue of a Confederate general that was toppled and burned in Washington, D.C., amid Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 ...

As federal judges block parts of Trump's agenda, some have issued dramatic and emotional opinions with their orders.

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 ...