For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

Turner’s show Otherworld at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto ... In the retelling of the slave trade, it’s often these moments of extreme violence that are pointed to.

One of the featured exhibits at the Housatonic Museum of Art, created by artist Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, explores the journey of ...

This was a noble pursuit, given that the transatlantic slave trade funded almost everything at the time. “Handel, too, ...

A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of ...

The National Trust, which protects heritage sites, published a report the same year detailing links between dozens of ...

As a graduate student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people. A ProPublica story last year revealed her discovery and unearthed the identity of ...

There is a common thread of misinformation that has been woven into the origin stories of descendants from the Diaspora. Whether dispersed around the world as a result of the intercontinental slave ...

There is no denying the UK’s participation in the slave trade – neither can the role of powerful and wealthy African kingdoms in selling slaves to European merchants be overlooked. In the ...

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...

LONDON (AP) — A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies.