Kittery played a significant role, particularly in colonial times, because of its maritime connections,” Councilor Judy ...

Kathleen Sullivan shares the discovery of her former home's connections to the slave trade and the pitfalls of a romanticized ...

A Christian group, Universal Prayer Fellowship, has appealed to the United States (US)President Donald Trump to champion a ...

The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and slow national reckoning on race, but some chapters on race are still missing from ...

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

Introduction / Kristin Mann and Philip Misevich -- Slavery and the slave trade -- Consuming goods, consuming people : reflections on the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- Caribbean ...

Ghana's President Mahama has received the African Union's backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic slavery as the 'gravest crime against humanity.' But will the motion pass?

A Nigerian faith-based organisation, Universal Prayer Fellowship, has formally petitioned the Chairman, Board of Peace at the White House, Washington DC, United States of America, demanding what it ...

The era of Atlantic slavery began a decade after the arrival of the Spanish in the Caribbean in 1492, with the introduction of enslaved Africans into the island of Hispaniola.” Already, on page 2 of ...

Culled from previously unexplored papers in the British National Archives by historian St Clair, this gripping history describes the British headquarters at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, the "last look" ...