Though commonly served in French restaurants, couscous is firmly rooted in Berber culture and has been a North African staple for centuries. Traditionally hand-rolled from semolina wheat, steamed to ...

In one shipment in 1834, for example, we find an impressive array of African-American slave families and family names: King -- mother and six children, ages 5 to 20; Lucket – mother and four ...

In the final decades of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal reclaims its status as the leading slavers, sending 1.3 million people to the Western Hemisphere, and mostly to Brazil.

"Into The Depths" traces the lasting legacy of the global slave trade, connecting Africa, Europe, North America, and South America in a shared history of trauma, resistance, and rediscovery.

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we celebrate on Juneteenth.

Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, an enslaver who tracked down an escaped slave could—often assisted by bounty hunters—seize the escapee and drag them before any judge or magistrate. If ...

Trade With China Is Becoming a One-Way Street President Trump is trying to further open up China’s market to U.S. companies, as Beijing’s appetite for the rest of the world’s exports is ...

One North Texas woman’s mission to preserve her family’s legacy 02:05. As Texans honor Juneteenth, one North Texas woman is ...

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 ...