Grappling with the legacy of slavery — and making peace with Africans' role in it — is one of the more challenging aspects of visiting Ghana, where Black Americans have been invited to “come home.” ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

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The exhibition of paintings by Marina Brown at the Anderson Brickler Gallery celebrates a renaissance of culture on display ...

Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

A HARD HISTORY: Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar Kristina Richardson presents in Kresge Auditorium. Richardson’s lecture ...

Kanye West, the African-American musician was on the spot for remarking that 400 years in which black people were held as ...

African merchants, the poor, royalty -- anyone -- could be abducted in the raids and wars that were undertaken by Africans to secure slaves that they could trade. The slave trade devastated ...

Researchers say this can be explained by the "intercolonial trade that occurred primarily ... be attributed to "the rape of enslaved African women by slave owners and other sexual exploitation".

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...

This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade. To save content items to your account, please confirm that ...

This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of ...