Archaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African island at the equator, according to archaeologists who investigated a 16th-century sugar mill and ...

Archaeologists have identified a small African island off the continent’s western coast that “embodies the inception of the plantation economic system,” according to new research. Controlled by ...

Author, Sade Green, pictured with burial site historical marker, which reads "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation, known and unknown, buried here in unmarked ...

The specific species cultivated there, Oryza glaberrima, is one of two domesticated strains of rice found on Earth. Africans living along the major rivers of Senegal, Gambia, and Niger created large ...

On top of the hill stands a rare 1800s grave house with burials dating back to 1795, likely part of a plantation-era family cemetery. But just below it lies a massive African American burial ground — ...