In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West African country.

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

Thousands of more enslaved men, women and children would experience the same cruel journey from the mid-Atlantic and Upper South to New Orleans over the next 20 years until the evil slave trade is ...