Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

On Tuesday, there was a relaunch of the African American Heritage Trail in Louisiana.Much of the African American history in the state and across the country remains untold.State leaders said it is ...

African nations are planning a Chagos-inspired legal battle to win slavery reparations from Britain, The Telegraph can reveal.

On top of the hill stands a rare 1800s grave house with burials dating back to 1795, likely part of a plantation-era family cemetery. But just below it lies a massive African American burial ground — ...