Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

From around the year 1500, millions of west Africans were sent to work mainly on plantations in the Caribbean and the ...

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

Corporations are ‘legal persons’ under the law. But their ability to be ‘owned’ by shareholders embeds a system of ...

Last week, a meeting at the United Nations brought together the descendants of enslaved people and slave owners. The attendees discussed ways to compensate former British colonies in the Caribbean for ...

The foundation associated with the Indiana Pacers basketball team is helping to rebuild a local basketball court. The city of ...