Boz Deseo Garden, whose work explores the “afterlife” of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, is having their Art Basel Paris ...

Naval warfare is rich with dramatic episodes. One such that deserves to be much better known is the campaign waged by England in the early 19th century against African slavery. Among the contestants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, I heard an intriguing three-minute interview on NPR with Amara Evering, reporter for the WLRN Public Radio station from ...

The Atlantic Slave Trade saw millions of Africans removed from their homeland, shipped across an ocean, and forced to work in ...

Slavevoyages.org, a  free online database chronicling tens of thousands of slave-trade voyages, is heading to Harvard ...

Underwater archaeologists at the site of the São José slave ship wreck near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (courtesy Iziko Museums, all images via Smithsonian Institution) Long-lost between two reefs ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “One of the chiefs took a vessel we had, filled it with soil and asked us to bring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Alabama Historical Commission shows artifacts from the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved ...

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...

A lot of Black history comes in the form of word of mouth, tales passed down from generation to generation for the sole purpose of persevering a legacy. One of those family tales is the story of the ...

Divers searched for the sunken vessel in the coast of Angra dos Reis. (all images courtesy AfrOrigens Institute) Researchers say they may have found a slave ship dating back to the 19th century off ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...