With the National Museum of Slavery, Angola has become a destination for descendants of enslaved people to reconnect.

Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens archives that may reconnect families across continents.

A new analysis of per-visitor spending reveals the destinations where travelers shell out the most and what that says about ...

Antebellum British writer and traveler John Lambert witnessed the making of coffins in Charleston for the bodies of 700 Africans, who died 200+ years ago before they could be sold into slavery.

Among the museum’s artifacts, which were hidden during the long closure, are a 5,400-year-old mummy and remnants from the ...

Libya's national museum, formerly known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle, has reopened in Tripoli, allowing the public ...

"The reopening of the National Museum is not just a cultural moment but a live testimony that Libya is building its ...

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama held talks with a global delegation seeking reparations for transatlantic slavery and ...

“Abrahm, male, age 26. Binah, female, age 18. Ann, female, 12-months.” These details are how the enslaved people who inhabited New Jersey during the 1800s are identified in the records of the Potters, ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump's 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for "Face ...