Slavery is a horrific institution that has plagued human civilization for thousands of years. However, don’t tell this to the United Nations, for the intergovernmental agency created as a response to ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

The transatlantic slave trade is a painful part of world history. It represents one of the largest forced migrations, displacing 12.5 million Africans from their homelands. The trade was also ...

Acknowledge the past. Repair the present. Build a future of dignity and justice. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, which operated between the fifteenth and late nineteenth centuries, ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

As Suriname celebrates 50 years of independence, the spectre of Dutch colonial rule and its role in the slave trade still lingers. The king and queen of the Netherlands touched down in the small South ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday condemning the trans-Atlantic slave trade that occurred between the 16th and 19th centuries and also urged reparations for it “as ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.

A new book called The Two Princes of Mpfumo tells the fascinating story of a pair of royals from Mozambique in southern Africa whose lives were thrown into chaos by the transatlantic slave trade. We ...

MUXIMA, Angola -- Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the "sorrow and great suffering" Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important ...

In light of this significant day, we will be acknowledging three prominent Nigerians who fought for the abolition of slave trade. We’ll be focusing on the lives of these distinguished individuals who ...