Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, at the Munich Security Conference, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says his country likely won’t ...

Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.

African Union Leader on Advancing the Cause of Justice and Payment of Reparations and the President of Ghana, John Mahaam, ...

You could feel chills to know that they had it and then they just pulled the rug from under them, so to speak.” ...

Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the height of the empire, continued to use enslaved labor after the abolition ...