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 ...

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 ...

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

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

That cargo was human beings, with a total of 95 enslaved people on board. According to the website Slave Voyages, a total of 112 enslaved people embarked on the transatlantic crossing.

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade with a major exhibition, Human Cargo. The horrors of the transatlantic slave ...

The Clotilda's captain took his human cargo off the ship in Mobile and set fire to the vessel to hide evidence of the journey. The people, all from West Africa, were enslaved.

A new documentary tells the story of the last known slave ship to enter the United States and takes on the difficult question of how to memorialize America’s history of racial violence.

The story of the Clotilda and its human cargo began with a boast, and then with a bet: In the spring of 1860, Alabama plantation owner and steamboat captain Timothy Meaher, bragged to dinner ...