A Rhode Island town that was a center of the transatlantic slave trade is commemorating Juneteenth by unveiling a new marker recognizing its role in slavery. Officials on Saturday were placing the ...

Long Island had the largest slave population of any rural or urban area in the North for most of the colonial era. For almost two centuries, New York was a slave colony and Long Island was a slave ...

Senegal's Goree Island, which for centuries served as a way station in the Transatlantic slave trade, has changed the name of its Europe Square in response to the death of George Floyd in the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pulley hangs over a well at the Old English fort, which previously housed a now defunct slavery museum in the slave port of ...

SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. - Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island vowed to keep fighting Tuesday after county commissioners voted to double the maximum size of homes allowed in their tiny ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN – The story of Casey Farm can’t be told without talking about slavery. Like other 18th-century farms in southern Rhode Island, its ties to slave labor run deep. On Sunday, Juneteenth, ...

BUNCE ISLAND, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - The ivy-clad ruins perched on a strip of mud in the Sierra Leone river hide a dark past, but have become an unlikely symbol of hope for many African Americans ...