Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story began many decades before and thousands of miles ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ... The ship was carrying at least 300 children when it left Benin, but witnesses who saw it off Gabon late last ...

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Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...

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It has many facets, including stories of our enslaved people and our community’s part in the slave trade. One story begins ...

Winooski had a short time as a community in the 19th century. Its most famous resident was a well-known abolitionist who had ...

The first Africans to land on North American soil were bought from a passing English ship in 1619 but ... in the United States. The last person who was born a slave died in 1972 and it has been ...

In the 19th century, maple syrup was the main form of sugar people in America ... slaves. Walker tried to free seven slaves in 1844 by sailing them from Pensacola, Florida, to the Bahamas. Walker ...

Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to ...

Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he could not ...