A United Nations vote later this month could redefine how the world formally recognises the transatlantic slave trade, ...

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

AFA copy 39088019024447 gift from Janet Stanley. 1. Potential laborers or "troublesome savages"? : settlement of liberated Africans in the Bahamas -- 2. "Binding them to the trade of digging cane ...

African nations are lobbying countries across the world to accuse Britain of playing a key part in “the worst crime in history”.

Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Bed-Stuy continued a decades-long tradition on Saturday by sharing the story of the MAAFA – a time period that refers to the trauma experienced by African people during ...

When we think about the Transatlantic Slave Trade, we often center the Black American narrative (i.e. – Black American Exceptionalism). The United States is not in and of itself exceptional, but Black ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch ...