From the 1500s to the 1800s it is estimated that one million white Europeans, to include those captured at sea as well as through land raids abroad were enslaved. Many of these were Americans captured ...

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

The history of Brazil, Palmares, and Zumbi illustrates how state efforts to whitewash national narratives can backfire.

Discover the emotional journey of Black Americans in Ghana, seeking racial healing and connection to their African roots at Cape Coast Castle.

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 ...

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

This hundred years—from approximately 1725 to 1825—is also the high-water mark of the slave trade, as Europeans send more than 7.2 million people to forced labor, disease, and death in the New ...

Discover how the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) is transforming intra-African trade, boosting economic growth, and creating jobs. Learn about its challenges and potential.

It was unfortunately too true that the slave trade was extensively carried on in Cuba, between 30,000 and 40,000 slaves being annually imported into the Island.

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.