Portuguese trading of enslaved Africans affected two major African powers in very different ways.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no more dangerous place for a young white woman than the ice cream parlor.

Sixteen documents, including slave bills of sale, tell the cruel story of the enslaved lives that were listed in ledgers.

In the eighteenth century, doctors recognized melancholy as a disease endemic to groups forcibly displaced from their homes, particularly enslaved Africans.

 Islam in America is clearly nothing new.

Gilbert Imlay already had a bad reputation before his biographer discovered he was a slave trader.