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 ...

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

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

US singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to be granted Benin citizenship through a new law aimed at offering ...

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 ...

Exports to the U.S. fell for the second consecutive month in May after a first-quarter boom, but remained higher than a year earlier.

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 ...

Malabo, July 15, (Xinhua/GNA) — Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama on Monday called for reparations from nations that undertook the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonization of Africa, ...