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

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can ...

When most people think of the slave trade, the image that comes to mind is the transatlantic system: ships crammed with human beings, sailing from West Africa to the Americas, feeding the rise of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's navigation of the Atlantic Ocean brought Europe, Africa and America into closer contact and triggered trade, cultural exchange, exploitation, rebellion and war, a new ...

NMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows how, at a moment of crisis after the Age of Revolutions, ambitious planters in the ...

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...

Juneteenth, or June 19, became a federal holiday in 2021. The holiday marks the date in 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and issued General Order Number 3, which ended ...

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Detail of The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images) In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in ...