The last “Firstival” during Black History Month will balance respectful remembrance with a celebration of activists, past and ...

Ghana will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly in March to designate the African slave trade as "the ...

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?

Every writer of history wants to craft a work that sticks to the ribs of the reader, and no meal does that better than one made from sacred cows. That’s what John Samuel Harpham aims to do in The ...

Britain’s Left is turning monarchist. Most of the progressives silting up our universities would still heartily proclaim their republicanism, of course, but many are being converted to the merits of ...

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

The Duke was the company’s governor, largest shareholder, and guiding spirit. Meetings often took place at his lodgings in Whitehall. James continued in his role as the governor of the Royal African ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is on a mission---to share the whole truth about the experience of African Americans. Trying to unearth ...

Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...

For Harpham’s explanation of how England came to view the enslavement of others as both a violation of nature and a legitimate institution, all roads ultimately lead back to Rome, and Roman law in ...