Talon has never publicly addressed the rumors. Benin has openly acknowledged its role in the slave trade, a stance not shared by many other African nations that participated. In the 1990s ...

When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory in the Caribbean, the 57-year-old travel agent said she had a ...

Kingdom, located in what is now modern-day Ghana, was one of the most powerful and influential states in West Africa during ...

In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter ... Some of the descendants of African traders are alive today.

The area around the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Bonny became known as the Slave Coast. Some historians believe that the slave trade ruined Africa because of the constant wars and the loss of ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

Captured far from the African coast when he was a boy of 11 ... He spoke out against the English slave trade. He worked to resettle freed slaves. By 1789, the year he published his autobiography ...