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 ...
Because it’s one of the few places to get South African grocery products and meat, business was going so well at Dutchy’s Gourmet Sausages they shut down the Plantation store. Wait for it. And opened ...
Medoune Ndiaye stood up in a room at Kingsley Plantation and, in his native Wolof language, began reciting, from memory, the names of the rulers of the Kingdom of Jolof. He went on for many minutes: ...
The greenhouse on the Maryland plantation where famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought: Its furnace was built by slaves, who hid ...
On Tuesday, there was a relaunch of the African American Heritage Trail in Louisiana.Much of the African American history in the state and across the country remains untold.State leaders said it is ...
A West African chef hosts a dinner at the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens on March 2. Fatmata Opala is a Sierra Leonean chef who lives near Harrisburg, Virginia. Opala will prepare a traditional ...
The North Carolina plantation’s Saturday evening event promised to share stories of its “former bondsmen” on June 19 — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. “Hear how they ...
A new report by Bread for all, Alliance Sud, and the German Network for Tax Justice has accused Belgian-French multinational Socfin, which operates rubber and palm oil plantations across West Africa, ...
Browns Plantations, the world’s largest tea grower, is stepping up its Orthodox tea production in East Africa as part of a wider plan to strengthen its premium specialty tea portfolio and deepen its ...
MUMBAI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Ruchi Soya Industries India's top meal exporter, is likely to ship 75 percent more soymeal in fiscal 2010/11 and is planning to acquire palm plantations in Africa, its ...