Boz Deseo Garden, whose work explores the “afterlife” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is having their Art Basel Paris ...

Slavevoyages.org, a  free online database chronicling tens of thousands of slave-trade voyages, is heading to Harvard ...

Ghana's international summit on slavery reparations held in June included a re-enactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, performed for delegates at the former slave trading post Christiansborg ...

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was known as "white gold" because of how valuable it was. By the 17th century, ...

The transatlantic slave trade was a multilayered, highly commercialised global enterprise that lasted from the early 1500s to the mid 1800s. The events over this period are far too complex to fit into ...

A few kilometers from central Luanda, Angola, the National Museum of Slavery preserves the memory of a painful chapter in African history. The museum occupies the former Capela da Casa Grande, a ...

In this deeply researched article, Onyekachi Wambu delves into the origins of the global cotton trade, its role in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, the rise of colonialism and immense wealth, the ...