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

Explore stories on how New Orleans was built by slave labor, made wealthy by slave trade and molded by the cultures of the ...

The USS Constellation is a fixture in Baltimore's Inner Harbor as hundreds of people pass by it every day — but most have no idea the role it played in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

In their book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engermen analyzed various elements of the slave economy including the role of slave traders ...

Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

The author of a new book on the lack of reparations for the 12.5 million people shipped across the Atlantic in the slave trade has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how none of them or their families are ...

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 nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...

Roberts said the trans-Atlantic slave trade should be more than a side note in history books. She called it 400 years of history that shaped our world. She said around 12,000 ships brought Africans to ...