An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit the ...

Britain’s role as a slave-trading and slave owning nation is rarely out of the news these days. Fanciful claims for trillions ...

Police have reported that more than 600 artifacts relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

Elba also opened up about his own career trajectory in the early days, stating that he didn't want to play "slaves." ...

Texas, walked back her claim that Latinos who voted for President Donald Trump had an almost "slave mentality" on CNN's "The ...

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens archives that may reconnect families across continents.

The tanker was headed eastward and had recently carried Iranian oil. The seizure is an escalation in President Trump’s ...

Got some gut-punch news the other day. An old friend and former co-worker -- contact with whom I'd unfortunately allowed to ...

Join me on a 12-night cruise aboard the Norwegian Star, one of the oldest ships in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet, built in ...

At Christiansborg Castle, a community that embodied the complexity of the transatlantic slave trade is being uncovered by descendants of those who created it Along a stretch of the West African coast ...

Ever since the English privateer ship White Lion arrived at Port Comfort in 1619 with 20 to 30 enslaved people, Virginia's ...