Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

Map showing the environmental sampling locations focused on filling gaps in West Africa, West-Central Africa, and parts of ...

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t just free 800,000 enslaved people — it set the precedent for global emancipation.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...

The seaside resort city of Biarritz has been ordered to rename the historic district of La Négresse, which translates as ...

was brought up with her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray at Kenwood House - a fictionalised version of her story is told in a 2013 film The 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act made it illegal for ...

State Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago), sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy ...

This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations ...

More people believe that Scotland was simply a subject of England than a partner in creating the largest empire the world ...

It connected the interior of the burgeoning United States to the Atlantic Ocean by way of ... commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in New York state by honoring those ...

ROGER McKENZIE reflects on the enslavement, endurance and rebellion of Africans trafficked across the Atlantic and the untold sufferings of unknown ancestors ...