The skeletons of three 16th-century African slaves recovered from a mass grave in Mexico City are shedding new light on the early colonial-era slave trade. The remains were found in a grave on the ...

16th century.Credit...Seth Caplan for The New York Times The exhibition also coincides with a moment of international consciousness-raising about Western colonialism in Africa, and the predatory ...

Full Ethiopian timeline One of Africa's best kept secrets - its history ... For more than 40 years during the 16th Century, it served as the capital of the Harari Kingdom, before becoming a ...

Cuba’s architecture ... in the late 16th Century and was imported to Cuba via Spain a century and a half later. However, due to the lack of skilled craftsmen in Cuba, where African slaves ...