For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman -- The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A.

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

Grammy-winning artist Ciara has been granted citizenship in Benin, becoming one of the first prominent individuals to benefit ...

There is not much flash or flair in the making of Hardcore History—he doesn’t include sound effects or bring guests into his ...

Thousands of more enslaved men, women and children would experience the same cruel journey from the mid-Atlantic and Upper South to New Orleans over the next 20 years until the evil slave trade is ...