Athens native Michael Thurmond shares the anti-slavery feelings of Georgia's founder, General James Oglethorpe.

Lorell Guydon, 96, is the “last man standing” among her 17 siblings. Her grandpa, Leander Guydon, was one of more than 2,000 ...

A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves. (7News) ...

Slavery was a business, a commerce, a financial enterprise expanding American capitalism. In fact, most economists agree that ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

Blue is also the color of the slave trade: Dyed indigo cloths in West Africa were ... and sea visible to enslaved people as ...

Israel, Lebanon and the U.S. are negotiating the release of Lebanese prisoners. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect a week ago. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian ...

Two vulnerable girls were treated as ‘sex slaves’ by a group of Asian men in Rochdale, a trial has heard. Eight men deny sexual offences allegedly committed against the two girls, who were ...

In July 1324, Sultan Musa of Mali rocked up in Cairo, together with an entourage of over ten thousand slaves and retainers ... s The Golden Rhinoceros brings the diplomacy of Africa’s ‘Middle Ages’ to ...