Wikimedia Commons/Nyttend Nat Turner’s Rebellion Nat Turner could read, preach, and see visions that convinced him he was a prophet. In August 1831, his divine calling led to the deadliest slave ...

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 ...

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

When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved ...

President John Dramani Mahama, opening the 13th High-Level Dialogue on Democracy, Governance and Human Rights in Accra, on ...

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country.