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 ...

PUERTO WILCHES, Colombia — Standing amid hundreds of African oil palms, their gray and desiccated fronds drooping to the ground, Edgar Barrera shakes his head and speaks of their death sentence. “What ...

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: ...

Because it’s one of the few places to get South African grocery products and meat, business was going so well at Dutchy’s Gourmet Sausages they shut down the Plantation store. Wait for it. And opened ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, there was a relaunch of the African American Heritage Trail in Louisiana.Much of the African American history in the state and across the country remains untold.State leaders said it is ...

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 ...

'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 ...

A new report by Bread for all, Alliance Sud, and the German Network for Tax Justice has accused Belgian-French multinational Socfin, which operates rubber and palm oil plantations across West Africa, ...