The portal currently features 613,458 entries documenting the people, events and places involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via public domain and NMAAHC ...

UC Santa Cruz has joined a newly formed consortium of institutions to ensure the preservation, stability, and future development of what has become the single most widely used online resource for ...

(AP) A new database launched Wednesday lets Britons curious about their family history uncover some potentially uncomfortable information whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers at ...

In the 1980s, while conducting research at a courthouse in Louisiana, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall discovered a book written by 18th-century notaries that meticulously recorded details about hundreds of ...

An international online database has launched to educate scholars and others about the history of slaves and formerly enslaved people and it's hosted by Michigan State University. Enslaved.org has ...

In a sense, G. Ugo Nwokeji bases his studies on the measurements of ghosts. Mr. Nwokeji, who is from Nigeria, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He is ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...