Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

In Benin, massive campaigns to rehabilitate old plantations have improved the productivity of cashew, the country's second largest export crop after cotton. World Bank support helped rehabilitate ...

The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid ...

Medoune Ndiaye stood up in a room at Kingsley Plantation and, in his native Wolof language, began reciting, from memory, the names of the rulers of the Kingdom of Jolof. He went on for many minutes: ...

'Lost' lives of African Americans to be featured in SC historic plantation site's redesign By Bo Petersen [email protected] Science and environment reporter. Author of Washing Our Hands in the ...