African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

A Healthy Nation? IN ancient Greece, slaves were forbidden from exercising so they didn’t get strong enough to revolt. Roman ...

But with the series, “people are rediscovering the good side of the Ottoman Empire, this federation before federalism, an empire where ethnic and religious communities coexisted,” he says. The story ...

Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. An undated portrait of Matilda McCrear, the slave ship Clotilda's last survivor, shows her in her later years. She died in 1940 at ...

Preservationists say the jubilant reactions to the charred mansion reflect the trauma and anger many people, especially Black Americans, still carry over the history and legacy of chattel slavery ...

Preservationists say the jubilant reactions to the charred mansion reflect the trauma and anger many people, especially Black Americans, still carry over the history and legacy of chattel slavery in ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of ...

A spokesperson for the anonymous group warned: "The Falmouth slave trader memorial is a blot on our town. As such, we will continue to escalate our actions until the church addresses the ongoing harm ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Friday he will veto a measure to create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, saying that while it was a difficult ...

And then the harms that are associated with working in a plantation-style agricultural system that’s reminiscent of chattel slavery. And so the pending class action lawsuit is seeking to address ...