Victims of atrocities and freedom fighters across history can inspire future generations to build just societies,the chief of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on ...

Between 1526 and the 1580s, slavery became fully institutionalized. Africans moved from being one labor source among many to the central pillar of Iberian colonization. Brazil’s sugar boom, Mexico’s ...

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Donald Trump has, yet again, complained that historians call the US slave trade “horrible” while threatening to sue ...

Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the ...

The local name for these African slaves was ‘Sheedi’. The slave trade in Karachi reached its peak in the 1830s ... and mapping the coast of Karachi in the 1830s, more than 1,500 slaves arrived in ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats ...

It's market day in Charleston, South Carolina. Hundreds of people bustle about the historic business district, wandering from ...

Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...

About this issue Abstract and details We draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered rare artifacts from an ancient African Christian community in Israel, revealing a glimpse into life in the Negev Desert 1,500 years ago.