In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Many African abolitionists who fought and lost their lives in the struggle against slavery have gone unacknowledged.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Wikimedia Commons/Richmond Compiler The Creole Rebellion of 1841 The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison ...

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

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country.

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

US singer Ciara became one of the first public figures to be granted Benin citizenship through a new law aimed at offering ...

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