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 ...

The Caribbean island’s cuisine combines African, Indigenous and Spanish influences to create dishes of distinction.

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished the transatlantic slave trade.

Charleston’s cobblestones are some of the oldest in America, setting the stage for a city shaped by centuries of history. With more than 400 churches, ... Read more The post 48 hours, 1 city: A full ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexandria to New Orleans: The Human Tragedy of the Interstate Slave Trade, Part I This is the first article in a four-part series.