The Church of England has insisted it has a “moral imperative” to address its historic links to the trans-Atlantic slave trade amid opposition to its plans to spend £100 million ($114 million) on ...

African and Caribbean leaders marked Juneteenth on Friday with a call for reparations from former slave-trading nations.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the General Assembly Hall during the historic vote on a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and the ...

The Atlantic slave trade wasn’t just cruelty – it was a machine. Between the 1500s and 1800s, millions of Africans were forced onto European ships, packed into floating prisons, and carried across an ...

Three centuries ago, an enslaved person in Virginia wrote to a leader of the Church of England, begging to be released from “this cruel bondage.” There was no reply from the church, which at the time ...

AFA copy 39088019585611 gift of Janet Stanley. "The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, ...

The long-awaited design of London’s first monument to victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been unveiled. By 2026, the city will feature a towering bronze cowrie shell, which will symbolize ...

Workers removed a statue of enslaver Robert Milligan in 2020. Eventually, the new monument will be located nearby. Yui Mok / PA Images via Getty Images A new monument honoring the victims of the trans ...

SlaveVoyages, a tool for data on history's largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project's upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher ...

In the 17th century, the Indian ocean slave trade was arguably on a bigger scale than the Atlantic slave trade. The hub of this vile industry was in modern-day Tanzania, an area that specialized in ...