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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A recent law passed by the West African country of Benin grants citizenship to anyone who can show they are descended from ...

US singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to be granted Benin citizenship through a new law aimed at offering ...

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

As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The film is part of an emerging and vocal movement in Spain to confront the legacies of the country’s involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and enslaved labor. A new collection of essays and ...