In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story.

INDEX: The Atlantic Slave Trade Before the sixteenth century, slavery was not regarded by anyone (outside or inside Africa) ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists ... now than there were victims of the Atlantic slave trade. The last country to abolish slavery was the African ...

Does a genetic secret explain why a devastating form of kidney disease affects Black Americans? In the summer of 2008, with ...

The demand for slaves grew quickly, fuelled by the New World’s growing agricultural ... This transatlantic trade created a new global economy that peaked between the 17th and 18th centuries.

The abolition of the African slave trade in 1850 and the Triple Alliance ... Blackburn acknowledges the revolutionary and world-historical significance of the second abolition.

Some African Americans are among those are taking advantage of a new law in Benin that grants citizenship to those who can ...

America’s racism and slavery story needs to be told with brutal honesty, but our reckoning shouldn’t be an easy morality tale ...

The legacy of the slave trade is rarely discussed in Angola ... Undersea Surgeons: In a wireless world, it is easy to forget the cables that snake across the turbulent ocean floor.

She hopes to become a citizen by taking advantage of a law passed in September that grants citizenship to those who can trace their lineage to the slave trade. The new law, which was initiated by ...