This story explores the role of the Ashanti Empire in the transatlantic slave trade and its connection with European powers.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the "sorrow and great suffering" Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed ...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed ...

*The United Nations General Assembly has recognized the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” in a resolution proposed by Ghana. The measure urges member states to consider ...

In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...

The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once France’s largest slave-trading ports now confronts its past through one of Europe’s most significant memorials. Along the ...

Introduction / Kristin Mann and Philip Misevich -- Slavery and the slave trade -- Consuming goods, consuming people : reflections on the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson -- Caribbean ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for Angolans to fight the “scourge of corruption” with a culture of justice. He is celebrating Mass ...

Leo, whose ancestors include enslaved people and slave owners, urged the faithful at the Sanctuary of Mama Muxima to build a ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Sunday a Catholic shrine in Muxima, Angola, a former epicenter of the African slave trade, as he arrived ...

Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for Angolans to fight the “scourge of corruption” with a culture of justice as he opened a poignant day in his African odyssey that took the American pope t ...