Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

SPARTANBURG — For roughly a hundred years, African-Americans on Rose Hill Plantation were nameless marks of genders and ages on census records, counted as three-fifths of a person. When a name was ...

The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid ...

The African American Museum Dallas is opening “Sunday Call to Church”, an exhibition featuring 22 works by self-taught ...

On Tuesday, there was a relaunch of the African American Heritage Trail in Louisiana.Much of the African American history in the state and across the country remains untold.State leaders said it is ...

Medoune Ndiaye stood up in a room at Kingsley Plantation and, in his native Wolof language, began reciting, from memory, the names of the rulers of the Kingdom of Jolof. He went on for many minutes: ...

The North Carolina plantation’s Saturday evening event promised to share stories of its “former bondsmen” on June 19 — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. “Hear how they ...