Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

Noble in intent but off-putting in design, The Middle Passage (9:05 p.m. Saturday, HBO) awkwardly mixes poetry with horrific images to relate the plight of Africans captured, shackled and crammed into ...

Enslaved Africans’ history has been lost for centuries to development — buildings, landfills, parking lots, strip malls, business parks. In 1991, in New York’s Lower Manhattan, construction workers ...

Descendants of the Africans who survived the arduous journey across the Atlantic Ocean known as the Middle Passage joined others in paying honor to their ancestors Monday at Sotterley Plantation in ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A marker in Biloxi now honors and shows the very place the first slaves were brought during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Biloxi NAACP held the program, talking about the ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story stated that the City of Tybee Island dedicated the official memorial rather than the Tybee Island Historical Society. On a sunny, blustery morning, ...

Doreen Lynette Garner, "I’d Rather the Viscera of Me Floating on the Surface of the Sea Than Be Dragged Into Hell by Those Pale and Free" (2022), silicone, steel pins, fabric, yarn, rope, burlap, hair ...

"Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the ...