Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

USS Constellation played key role in ending transatlantic slave trade Inner Harbor landmark docked in Baltimore played part in liberating slave captives ...

Shutterstock The Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston became a major center for buying and selling ...

THE salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana’s Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved ...

Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern frontier ...

Explore the mystical ruins of GTI, a medieval Swahili town on Kenya’s northern coast, where coral stone houses, ancient mosques, and palaces whisper stories of a thriving trade empire connected ...

Ocean surges are eroding the coastline of Ghana, and with it remnants of the West African country’s historical role in the slave trade.

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 1807 which abolished… ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.