Ruthie Browning dove into the calm, blue water off Key West, Florida, expecting to see “a big, old rock with stuff growing all over it.” She was on a pilgrimage with other Black divers and community ...

You can read about history or learn about it from a television program. But being in a place is a powerful way to experience ...

Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...

The museum acquired the collection, the largest and most complete set of Charleston slave badges, in 2022. 146 slave badges from Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian National ...

A young student at England's Cambridge University decides to enter an essay contest, the theme of which is slavery. The student knows almost nothing about the topic, but delves into the subject anyway ...

Beninese government has contracted Chinese firms to create seaside development linking port to historic slave route and ...

These portraits of emancipated slave children from New Orleans were created as part of a campaign to raise money for their education and, more broadly, to generate sympathy for the plight of slaves at ...