In Hulu’s soapy “Washington Black,” about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yanked the protections for the three nations in June and July and offered each a ...

Approximately 1.5 million Africans were captured, enslaved, and deported to the New World by Benin's tribal leaders.

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 African country.

Benin's citizenship law carries significance in part because of the role it played in the transatlantic slave trade.

Ciara, the R&B singer, has become a citizen of Benin under a government scheme for the descendants of African slaves.

A memorial to enslaved Africans transported on Lancaster-owned ships as part of the Transatlantic slave trade has been ...