Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...

Featuring a stellar cast that bridges Nollywood and international film circuits—Bolanle Ninalowo, Tobi Bakre, Fathia Balogun, ...

Between 1632 and 1760, records show that 734 Indigenous children were enslaved in France's North American colony, historian ...

As the Senate prepares to vote on a key piece of the president’s domestic agenda, prominent critics, including Elon Musk, are ...

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The legacy of the collector who brought the banjo (and hot chocolate) to Europe is overshadowed by his involvement in the ...

New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly ...

Muslims believe in one God, all-powerful and ever present, uncreated, without beginning or end, completely sufficient to ...

"Saint Lucia's slavery history reveals that the Nigerian ancestry, with 34% of enslaved Africans traced to Nigeria in the ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

More than 150 people from across the world have attended a gathering on the Anglican Church’s involvement in transatlantic ...

Thousands of sculpted heads – captive African men, women, and children – meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo ...