Drax Hall, a Barbados plantation where sugar has been reaped for nearly four centuries, was for so long just an ordinary part of what Phillips understood as her wholesome childhood. She grew up nearby ...

Britain owes Barbados $4.9 trillion, according to Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley. The comments made during a visit by Mottley to London echo earlier claims she has made and add to demands coming ...

With countries like Australia still debating whether or not the time has come to become a republic, what prompted tiny Barbados with its population of less than 300,000, to take the leap?

For many black people in the U.S. and the Caribbean, the family tree is often a trunk with no roots. But a new online database offers new information for the descendants of British slaves. Tony Cox ...

Cumberbatch has acted in several films about slavery: first in the 2007 film "Amazing Grace," where he plays former British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, who is sympathetic to slave ...