As a literary scholar and cultural historian who has spent a lifetime searching out African Americans’ lost, forgotten and otherwise unheralded tales, I was honored to serve as a historical consultant ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of ...

Justice in Action: Confronting History, Advancing Dignity, Empowering Futures. The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans was one of the gravest crimes in history. Millions of men, women and ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

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Elmina Castle, Ghana. The castle was built by the Portuguese and was the first trading post on what became known as the Slave Coast. It was an important centre for the transatlantic trade in enslaved ...