Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

As the nation continues to celebrate Juneteenth—commemorating June 19, 1865, when federal troops enforced the Emancipation ...

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

Richmond is slowly coming to terms with its past as a major slave-trading market. The Richmond Slave Trail, a self-guided walking tour of 17 sites, chronicles the trade of enslaved ...

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its victims.

Archive images are displayed during the preparation of a mural by French street artist Shuck One for the exhibition "Paris Noir", in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 ...

Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...

During the transatlantic slave trade, about 40 percent of enslaved Africans brought into the U.S. passed through Charleston’s harbor, which was the largest port in North America at the time.

A planned memorial to the Royal Navy’s role in ending the slave trade is in limbo after it was rejected by a string of proposed sites. Campaigners raised £70,000 to build a statue commemorating ...

The new law, which was initiated by President Patrice Talon, who has been in office since 2016, is part of a broader effort by Benin to reckon with its own historical role in the slave trade.

The Henrietta Marie was an English slave ship that mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West in 1700. It was returning from a trip to Jamaica where 191 slaves were sold. Nearly 300 years later ...