Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

Author, Sade Green, pictured with burial site historical marker, which reads "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation, known and unknown, buried here in unmarked ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — "Living Legacies," a celebration of Black history, took place Saturday at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens. Guided by historians and artists from the Slave Dwelling Project, the ...

"In the old days, you would open the door, and it would be a hive of activity. Now it's all closed down," sighs 89-year-old Agida Lucia. Once cocoa was shipped out to the world from Agostinho Neto, a ...