Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

The Grammy-winning performer's acquisition of citizenship at a ceremony in the city of Cotonou is part of a broader ...

There is not much flash or flair in the making of Hardcore History—he doesn’t include sound effects or bring guests into his ...

Caribbean Community nations, led by Jamaica, are tweaking their approach to demands for reparations for the transAtlantic ...

Thousands of more enslaved men, women and children would experience the same cruel journey from the mid-Atlantic and Upper South to New Orleans over the next 20 years until the evil slave trade is ...