Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

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 ...

Newly imported African slaves fled South Carolina to establish maroon communities in Florida in the late 1600s, a tradition that was continued by American-born fugitives from South Carolina and ...

In 1600, more ambassadors from Morocco came to ... From this inventory, we know that Cattelena was of African origin, that she died in 1625 and that she was an ‘independent singlewoman’.

an ethnic group in South Africa made up of descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands, who first arrived ...