In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn about seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guy ...

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

Descendants of Slave Owners and Enslaved People in the Caribbean Call for Reparations at the UN UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William ...