Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laws enacted during the U.S. slavery era are still being used by lawyers and judges in today's courtrooms. Getty Images As the ...

Young children who grew up in slavery on Surinamese plantations were much more likely to die if they were without a mother. This is evident from a historical analysis of Surinamese slave registers by ...

Laws enacted during the U.S. slavery era are still being used by lawyers and judges in today’s courtrooms. Laws enacted during the U.S. slavery era are still being used by lawyers and judges in ...

Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- The political economy of slavery in Africa -- Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 -- Slavery and the African population: a ...