For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

It was hard not to be swept up in the furore that Bristol faced when its links to the transatlantic slave trade were laid ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

The movie series began in 2003 with the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where we join pirate captain Jack Sparrow and blacksmith Will Turner, p ...

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on the banks of the river, where the ship remains ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said it airlifted a sick sailor on a cargo ship 80 miles off Kauai Thursday morning.

A cargo ship that had been delivering new vehicles to Mexico sank in the North Pacific Ocean.