Slave trade

Marlon James’s novel The Book of Night Women is set on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the turn of the 19th century. It’s about a rebellion led by a group of slaves. It is also the coming-of-age story of Lilith, the enslaved daughter of the plantation’s overseer, and her conflicted feelings about violence as retribution. […]

The historic slave trade from Africa to the Americas was so widespread and so horrific as to remain difficult to entirely grasp. A new book, ?Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” aims to turn historic data from the period into a more coherent view, through maps and data. The book uncovers information that may soon […]

150 years after the Civil War, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to apologize for the nation’s history of slavery. For his thoughts on who this resolution really helps, The Takeaway turns to David Wall Rice, professor of psychology at Morehouse College.

Officials in Nigeria say that criminal networks are forcing thousands of girls and women there into prostitution in Mali. Nigeria accuses Mali of failing to act against the traffickers. The BBC’s Martin Vogl is in Bamako, the capital of Mali.

Slavery was abolished more than a century ago in the US. But yesterday, a jury in New York convicted a couple of enslaving their two Indonesian housekeepers. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Nancy Foner, a professor of sociology at Hunter College. She’s an expert on immigration and domestic workers.