Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens archives that may reconnect families across continents.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- On this episode of Here and Now, we learn about the story behind the discovery of the single largest remaining trace of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The documentary, 'A Story of ...

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the ...

An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit the Atlantic slave trade.

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can ...

Kwesi Essel-Blankson, author of “Our Story: Cape Coast Castle & The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade." The author (left) has been a tour guide at the Cape Coast Castle for over 20 years. In 2009, he led a ...

ABN Amro, the third-largest Dutch bank, issued an apology Wednesday for its predecessors’ involvement in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The bank worked with ...

John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Although the Atlantic slave trade was abolished in 1808, some slavers continued to illegally buy slaves in Africa and ...

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...