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

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Civil Rights icon Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and renowned journalist Stacy M. Brown collaborated on the groundbreaking book The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500 ...

From the 1500s through the 1800s, millions of Africans were violently captured from the lush coastal kingdoms of West and Central Africa, traded through slave forts, and packed into ships bound for ...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity.

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - A Maine-based historical fiction author has released a novel aimed at preserving the truth about the horrors African Americans suffered through their experience with slavery and ...

When Canada abstained from a recent vote at the United Nations on a resolution recognizing the transatlantic slave trade as ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday condemning the trans-Atlantic slave trade that occurred between the 16th and 19th centuries and also urged reparations for it “as ...

Ghana's President, John Dramani Mahama gesture to his supporters during a presidential election rally at Accra Sports Stadium in Accra, Ghana. [File, AFP] The resolution passed by United Nations ...

We have retracted an article, “The transatlantic slave trade is the gravest crime against humanity – why the UN declaration matters”. It was brought to our attention that the author was no longer ...

KITTERY, Maine — Residents are digging into the town’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade and Kittery Point’s status as a documented arrival port for ships carrying enslaved people. Two plaques ...