The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...

The gap between the economies of former colonies and their colonisers owes much to the policies of post-colonial governments ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

When most people think about slavery -- if they think about it at all -- they probably assume that it was eliminated during the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Slavery ...

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

From grand stately homes and public buildings to obscure graveyards and private homes, Britain's slave trade history can be traced in the local landscape around the country. The geography of the ...

There was another historical fact that may or may not have been taught in schools and reveals the dark truths surrounding African Americans and the slave trade—fancy girls. The Instagram account Black ...

David Eltis receives funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Liverpool council’s decision in January 2020 to contextualise streets named after slave traders shed important light on the town’s ...

Baltimore’s role in the 1800s slave trade is documented in a new exhibition at the Homewood Museum on the Johns Hopkins University campus in North Baltimore. In the five decades after the legal end of ...

Who's the highest bidder? 800 Dinar! 1,000 Dinar! 1,100 Dinar! In the end, the winning bid is 1,200 Libyan Dinar — the equivalent of $800 (€680). A done deal; however, this isn't just any auction for ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...