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

USS Constellation played key role in ending transatlantic slave trade Inner Harbor landmark docked in Baltimore played part in liberating slave captives ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Belize reiterated its support for rules-based trade and emphasized the importance of inclusive outcomes at the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14), particularly in areas impacting Least ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of ...

INTERNATIONAL Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition was celebrated on August 23, commemorating the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and remembering victims.This ...

The steeple of North Church is where two lanterns were raised — “one if by land, two if by sea” — to launch Paul Revere’s famous ride that began the American Revolution. But the church has discovered ...

Ten Haitian female refugees, ranging from ages 11-16, will be making Belize their home after being rescued from the illegal slave trade in that country. Belize has granted refugee status to thirteen ...

Beatrix Potter’s silence concerning her sources means the Brer Rabbit folktales that helped create her stories are passed over without acknowledgement or celebration.