Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America.

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and author of "Lies My Liberal Teach Told Me." "The original sin of slavery." ...

In world history, no topic is as culturally shameful, fraught, and continuously painful as slavery. Whether it's the extent of slavery among the world's oldest civilizations or the horrors of slavery ...

“My maternal family comes from the Georgia Lowcountry — Savannah and a few of the surrounding Gullah islands. The family story that has been passed down to me is that some of our ancestors came in on ...

National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts spoke with "GMA" about her journey. A trip to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture launched journalist Tara Roberts on a ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...