THE salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana’s Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved ...

Wading through water up to his knees, Hassan Kargbo points to the vast ocean before him, which is eroding the land and ...

Residents of Sierra Leone's Turtle Islands face displacement due to climate change, with rising seas eroding their homes.

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

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

USS Constellation played key role in ending transatlantic slave trade Inner Harbor landmark docked in Baltimore played part in liberating slave captives ...

Explore Georgia’s forgotten Maroon hideouts; hidden swamp fortresses where freedom seekers defied slavery and built lives off ...

Shutterstock The Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston became a major center for buying and selling ...

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

Not all history buffs are museum-goers. While some travellers delight in curated displays and climate-controlled corridors, ...