By legally recognizing these children of Africa, Benin is healing a historical wound. It is an act of justice, but also one ...

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 ...

Pop star Ciara among first beneficiaries of new law for slave descendants - American star Ciara will become a citizen of ...

According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa are discovered centuries after wrecking in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica, in the 1700s after revolts.