A collaboration between CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis and Digital Slavery Research Lab aims to regenerate identities using statsitics. Conflicts among African ...

Those who boarded slave ships from the Bight of Benin, or the Slave Coast of Africa, lost more than their homes—they lost their identities. New maps of a former kingdom made by a University of ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

This geological map of equatorial Africa shows strontium isotope sampling locations Oelze’s team will use to create the first-ever strontium isotope map of the region, a tool researchers will use to ...

In the years following, ships transported at least 400,000 slaves from Africa to ports in New England and the southern states. Their free labor allowed the tobacco, cotton, and sugar industires to ...

Roy Myers, 68, lingered at a simple map displayed on the wall labeled “Points of Arrival in North America.” It showed the path from Africa on slave ships. Myers, a retired advertising executive, ran ...

Philip Misevich, Daniel Domingues, David Eltis, Nafees M. Khan and Nicholas Radburn, The Conversation Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Bronwen Everill received funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Huntington Library for this research. Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the west African coast, was named for the freed slaves ...