40 percent of those captured in Africa died before boarding slave ships. 10 percent died in the Middle Passage or shortly ...

They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete the voyage.

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

Racist text messages sent to Black people in Ohio and across the nation are a result of Trump's hateful rhetoric.

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

NEWPORT – A multiyear effort to establish a monument recognizing the history of the slave trade in Newport ... at 23 Clarke St. The Rhode Island Middle Passage Port Marker Project has been ...

the disposition of slaves in the Americas, and the Middle Passage are finely tuned, clearly written, and deploy the latest scholarship. Indeed, in making generalizations, Klein goes beyond what can be ...

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It's called ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” an international exhibition set to debut next month, illuminates the unfinished work of securing freedom Lonnie G. Bunch III Ancestral Memorial, Coney Island, a ...

They were slaves, but slavery and the abuse ... My ancestors survived the Middle Passage. I will survive four more years of Donald Trump and the nastiness he carries in the White House on the ...