The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and slow national reckoning on race, but some chapters on race are still missing from ...

Some six million slaves were transported from Africa during the slave trade. Over time, the identity of many of the Africans has been lost. But now, Emory University has put together a database called ...

The Trans-Atlanta Slave Trade Database, maintained by Emory University, is expanding through additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The database, known as slavevoyages.org, ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

Historians say that a new Web database could help bring millions of blacks closer to their African slave ancestors, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has long been possible for white ...

Student poster shows the layout of the Middleburg Plantation. Using a blend of data, history, and archaeology, UC Santa Cruz undergraduates have explored what life as a slave was like on plantations ...

ATLANTA -- Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...

Bronwen Everill received funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Huntington Library for this research. Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves ...