The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of ...

A concert from the Galveston Symphony Orchestra marked 160 years since enslaved people in Texas were officially freed – a day ...

and death in the New World. For a time during this period, British transport even exceeds Portugal’s. In the final decades of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal reclaims its status as the ...

Seattle Sounders FC and its fans are embracing the opportunity to welcome club football’s most prestigious tournament to their city. The FIFA Club World Cup™ Trophy Tour reached the USA's ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now an ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s government issued a public apology on Saturday to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like ... Ecuador is the world’s largest exporter ...

Photograph by Album While slavery existed for millennia in other cultures around the world before 1619, it transformed significantly in the Americas. Traditional African slavery was vastly ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s government issued a public apology on Saturday to a group of plantation workers who were subjected to slave-like conditions according to a ruling issued last ...

Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric car giant BYD and two contracting companies for human trafficking and alleged slave labor conditions at a build site, according to legal documents ...