The so-called golden age of Dutch painting in the 1600s coincided with an economic boom that had a lot to do with the ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from ...

Narrated by Academy Award-nominee Angela Bassett (Waiting to Exhale), it offers unparalleled understanding -- from slavery's birth in the early 1600s through the violent onset of civil war in 1860.