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 ...

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...

An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit 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 ...

John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides ...

Two years ago, the release of a documentary in Spain set off a fiery debate in the region of Catalonia that is still simmering. The film, “Negrers: La Catalunya esclavista,” or “Slavers: Catalonia and ...

Leighton Buzzard-based historian Dr Hannah Durkin is celebrating after being named winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2025.