COTONOU, Benin (AP) – Fears were growing for scores of children on a suspected slave ship Monday, but Benin officials claimed that authorities had identified the wrong ship as the suspicious vessel.

TORI TOKOLI, Benin (AP) — When the corn harvest is bad or a breadwinner dies, child smugglers crisscross the red dirt roads linking Benin s villages with the big city, offering money and promises of a ...

COTONOU, Benin (AP) A decrepit vessel suspected of carrying child slaves was believed to be drifting off western Africa on Sunday as authorities sought the arrest of suspects from several countries in ...

THE trawlers fled a slave island in Indonesia with captives of a brutal Southeast Asian trafficking ring whose catch reaches the United States. Hundreds of men were freed after they were discovered ...

One dark night in July 1860, fire danced over the waters of Mobile Bay as a schooner was set ablaze. She was the Clotilda and had just illegally smuggled 110 West Africans into the United States on ...

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MOBILE, Ala. — Juneteenth has long had special meaning for the descendants of the last slave ship known to come to the United States, the Clotilda. People like Vernetta Henson and Darron Patterson of ...