On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...

Kidnapped and trafficked from modern-day Sierra Leone to Havana on a larger vessel ... for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display, "In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in ...

Sierra Leone is bounded by Guinea to the north and northeast, Liberia to the south and southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Emergence of the Nation. When the slave trade began to be outlawed ...

They followed the precedent of the British, who dumped slaves found on trading ships captured by their Navy on the west coast of Africa, in what has recently became both Liberia's victim and fellow ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

UNEP and Sierra Leone launch a pioneering e-mobility initiative: introducing electric three-wheelers (e-kekes) in Freetown to ...

Environmentalists in Thailand expressed their disappointment on Tuesday (February 11) after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bring back plastic drinking straws, pushing back ...

10 million more people were in modern slavery in 2021 compared to 2016 global estimates, bringing the total to 50 million worldwide. Women and children remain disproportionately vulnerable.