The Wiener Holocaust Library exhibition examines how forced labour became central to the Nazi war economy.

In 1856, a slave-owning representative from South Carolina used a cane to attack and beat Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner, who was vehemently opposed to slavery and spoke out against it.

A group of Black divers recently visited the site where the British slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 326 years ago.

In 1885, Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth married Bernhard Förster, a high school teacher turned German nationalist and rabid ...

The United Nations General Assembly, that playground for dictators, terrorists and supporters of terrorists, on March 25 passed a resolution condemning the Transatlantic slave trade by a 123-3 ...

'It is a story that involves the juxtaposition of profit and power versus the human cost.' The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will display the largest and most ...

Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...

A young student at England's Cambridge University decides to enter an essay contest, the theme of which is slavery. The student knows almost nothing about the topic, but delves into the subject anyway ...