NEW YORK (WABC) -- On this episode of Here and Now, we learn about the story behind the discovery of the single largest remaining trace of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The documentary, 'A Story of ...

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the ...

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tributes to victims of the transatlantic slave trade can be found in museums and through statues, but a new proposal is calling for a memorial that can ...

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 ...

In South Carolina, members of the local Black community are teaming up with scientists to produce a novel study of the trans-Atlantic slave trade Sunlight illuminates a plaque in Charleston, South ...

At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...

The transatlantic slave trade, carried out by Western powers for nearly four centuries, remains one of humanity's darkest chapters, leaving deep scars through the suffering, loss, and shattered lives ...

The era of Atlantic slavery began a decade after the arrival of the Spanish in the Caribbean in 1492, with the introduction of enslaved Africans into the island of Hispaniola.” Already, on page 2 of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Although the Atlantic slave trade was abolished in 1808, some slavers continued to illegally buy slaves in Africa and ...

Antecedents: the Americas, Africa and Europe in the fifteenth century -- Commencement: the European opening of the Atlantic ocean -- Conquests: forging the Iberian empires in Africa and the Americas - ...