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.

Pop star Ciara among first beneficiaries of new law for slave descendants - American star Ciara will become a citizen of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

It commanded the African squadron from 1859 to 1861, patrolling the West African coast and looking for illegal slave ships. Even though slavery was still legal in the United States during those ...

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 ...