"THE VICTORIAN STYLE SLAVE ISLAND RAILWAY STATION" Last week, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena ordered the authorities to officially rename “Slave Island” as “Kompagngna Veediya”. Though already ...

We pass them every day but do we know their significance? In our new series, Dr. K. D. Paranavitana delves into the history of some of Colombo’s famous names and places. The Colombo Municipality has a ...

Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardana said today that he had informed the officials that the English name "Slave Island" should be changed to "Kompannavidiya" immediately. He stated that the decision to ...

Long Island had the largest slave population of any rural or urban area in the North for most of the colonial era. For almost two centuries, New York was a slave colony and Long Island was a slave ...

A Rhode Island town that was a center of the transatlantic slave trade is commemorating Juneteenth by unveiling a new marker recognizing its role in slavery. Officials on Saturday were placing the ...

Some former slave ports in Africa are now tourist destinations, but not Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. It's abandoned and its slave castle is in ruins. The British established Bunce Island as a slave ...

Since the end of the civil war, the physical face of Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo has been radically changed. As part of what the government calls "beautification", long-standing low-income ...

Senegal's Goree Island, which for centuries served as a way station in the Transatlantic slave trade, has changed the name of its Europe Square in response to the death of George Floyd in the United ...

As the boat slowly approaches the quiet shores of Bunce Island, it's hard to shake off the eerie feeling of being transported back into one of history's darkest chapters. Located some 30 kilometers ...

T J Davis explores the hidden history of New York and how the discovery of a slave burial ground changed a city. Slavery in America has traditionally been viewed as a peculiarly Southern phenomenon, ...