LONDON -- A database launched Wednesday lets Britons curious about their family history uncover some potentially uncomfortable information -- whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers at ...

It would establish an electronic database in the National Archives to aid black Americans’ search for information on their ancestors. A bill introduced Jan. 10 would set up a national online database ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program, known best for its red, yellow and green sustainable seafood-rating scheme, is unveiling its first Seafood Slavery Risk Tool on Thursday. It's a ...

The Trans-Atlanta Slave Trade Database, maintained by Emory University, is expanding through additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The database, known as slavevoyages.org, ...

Historians say that a new Web database could help bring millions of blacks closer to their African slave ancestors, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has long been possible for white ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

WATCH: Reporter Tiana Woodard breaks down the first-of-its-kind directory. Eleanor Pollow was an enslaved Black woman in 17th-century Boston. She became a member of the First Church in Boston in 1696, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only 100 British companies have paid to sign up to a new voluntary slavery database, designed to fund an anti-trafficking helpline, organizers said on Monday. The ...