1.   But the slave descendants seeking recompense are many generations removed from their relatives who toiled under the lash, the American-history professor said.

2.   He traveled to Africa to track slave descendants.

3.   The toughest part of his research was tracking down slave descendants and confronting them with the revelations that his family enslaved theirs.

4.   A small community of African slave descendants is about the only thing keeping one of the biggest gold mines in South America from opening.

5.   Slave descendants fight to stop gold mine.

6.   The meeting began Thursday and aims to form a Caribbean Rastafarian Organization dedicated to getting reparation for slavery and the repatriation of slave descendants to Africa.

7.   Three slave descendants filed similar suits in March.

8.   Unlike many slave descendants, Houston elementary school teacher Naomi Grundy knows a bit about her ancestors.