This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

AAPG copy 39088019788785 signed by author, "To Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence, with admiration and affection." 1. Land of Their Ancestors. Ghana. Mali. Songhay. Other States -- 2. The African Way ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition ...

It’s been a busy week for famed historian Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the foremost scholars on black history and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard ...