Wikimedia Commons/Our special artist John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry Most people plan bank heists for money. John Brown planned an armory heist to free slaves. On October 16, 1859, the radical ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Two years ago, the release of a documentary in Spain set off a fiery debate in the region of Catalonia that is still simmering. The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...