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

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

As federal judges block parts of Trump's agenda, some have issued dramatic and emotional opinions with their orders.

The Atlantic slave trade started with the Portuguese bringing the first captives from Africa to Brazil in 1526 and continued into the 19th centuries, with estimates putting the number shipped across ...

Even before the publication in 1969 of Philip Curtin’s seminal book, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, historians and others have been engaged in debates and analyses of the effects of the ...

The Atlantic slave trade during its heyday and the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to ...

A researcher has discovered the identity of the last-known survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Redoshi, later given the slave name Sally Smith, was kidnapped at the ...

In my Jan. 29 newsletter, I wrote a little about the development of the domestic slave trade in the United States, apropos of my Sunday Review story on the SlaveVoyages database and the effort to ...

Estimates vary widely, but somewhere between 10 million and 28 million Africans are believed to have been shipped across the Atlantic between the 15th and 19th centuries. Many died on the way ...

Author Richard Reddie writes about the Atlantic slave trade, how the Bible was used by Christians on both sides of the issue and the abolitionists who sought to bring it to an end.