Cassandra Lewis awaits approval from West African nation while reflecting on her great-great-grandfather Cudjo Lewis's ...

Joseph McGill Jr. has been on tour since 2010, and you’re welcome to join him. But you may not like the accommodations.

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

Wikimedia Commons/TheCuriousGnome The Amistad Rebellion and Its Extraordinary Trial In 1839, 53 Africans broke their chains aboard a slave ship and fought back with cane knives. They killed their ...

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 ...

It was one of the biggest pirate heists in history; 300 years later, Cape Cod archaeologists think they've found the ...

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

According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was ...