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

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- African countries dominate a new global index on slavery, with 38 of the 50 nations where the scourge is at its worst found on the continent.

Slavery's Bitter Legacy in W. Africa Over 250 years after the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, some West Africans are still trying to come to terms with the involvement of African rulers and ...

The slave ship incident may have awakened the U.S. public to the persistence of such inhumane practices, but the discussion about slavery in Africa has been raging just beneath the surface of ...

Zanzibar as East Africa's slave hub. The slave trade in East Africa really took off from the 17th century. More and more merchants from Oman settled in Zanzibar.

The question arose after the Washington Post, which now finds itself with no African-descended people on its foreign news desk, reported in a front-page story posted Jan. 29 about the remorse over ...

Yet even today slavery is not unknown in Africa, particularly in countries such as the Sudan where law and order are often absent. Nor have the colonists ever really gone away.

Brutal Black-on-Black slavery was common in Africa for thousands of years. True, in the sense that the phenomenon of human beings enslaving other human beings goes back thousands of years, ...

Their descendants came from West Africa, brought to America as slaves around the 1700s . The Gullah/Geechee are trying to hold onto the way of life of their African ancestors.

When African slaves first arrived in America, they found hope in an unlikely place. Allen Dwight Callahan, author of The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible, talks about why slaves ...

On March 16, 1827, the same year that slavery was abolished in New York, Peter Williams Jr. co-founded Freedom’s Journal, the first newspaper owned and operated by African-Americans.