In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

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.

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 ...

Introduction: reparations in the past and the present -- "Greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears" -- "And what should we wait of these brutish spirits?" -- "We helped to ...

Dutch royal family visit, the first to the South American former colony in nearly 50 years, spotlights role of the Netherlands in transatlantic trade ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...