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 ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of Africa's great destinations to the world.

The community of Dublin traces its roots to descendants of emancipated Africans who started returning to Sierra Leone after the abolition of slave trade by Britain in 1807. Rusted cannons and a ...

Charcoal portraits depict six of the enslaved Africans who were aboard the Amistad, the 19th-century slaving schooner that became the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. After they were stolen ...

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 ...

Show more In Freetown, Sierra Leone, we join a group of African-Americans ... where they find the ruins of a slave fort where men, women and children were held captive in appalling conditions.

I've received this from Stephen Glynn in the US who suggests an interesting resource for those interested in anti-slavery patrols: I absolutely love listening to your podcasts, and I have especially ...

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 ...

Prosecutor Dora Domenech said that the testimonies collected were not enough to support charges of 'slave-labor' on board ... The 28 crewmembers are from Sierra Leone and Ghana and are currently ...

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