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 ...

What was it like to live as an enslaved family right here in the Triangle area? Today, you can visit remains of one of the state’s largest plantations – and learn the names and stories of hundreds of ...

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 ...

Louisiana's Whitney Plantation—open since 2014 as a museum dedicated to education about the legacy of slavery in the U.S.—lost its federal grants as a result of Trump's attack on DEI. Unfortunately, ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana president Irfaan Ali on Thursday lashed out at the descendants of European slave traders, saying those who profited from the cruel, trans-Atlantic slave trade should ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...

Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...