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.

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

"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.

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 ...

Photo: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News ; Toby Melville/Reuters SINGAPORE—A key lesson from the latest skirmish in the U.S.-China trade war: The era of weaponized supply chains has arrived.