Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

"The African House is truly an enigma. No records remain which authoritatively date its construction, no records which identify its function. No evidence exists which explains how such a uniquely ...

The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid ...

Medoune Ndiaye stood up in a room at Kingsley Plantation and, in his native Wolof language, began reciting, from memory, the names of the rulers of the Kingdom of Jolof. He went on for many minutes: ...