The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the ...

African and Caribbean nations want countries which benefited from slavery to pay compensation but it will not be ...

*The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” in a resolution proposed by Ghana. The measure urges member states to consider ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed ...

VCU associate professor's book explores the hidden history of the British monarchy and slavery in the Americas.

In the second part of the series, we established that the widely repeated claim that Europeans remained confined to the ...

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Available in print and for free online, this book features five essays by scholars of law and politics, all considering the ...

In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...

Introduction / Kristin Mann and Philip Misevich -- Slavery and the slave trade -- Consuming goods, consuming people : reflections on the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- Caribbean ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the "sorrow and great suffering" Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed ...