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 July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

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 ...

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

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut off food and medical supplies to the islands. Finally, they deported the ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to explore a shipwreck, pilot a remotely operated vehicle or touch artifacts that haven’t seen daylight in centuries, the Intrepid Museum has a new exhibition ...

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

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

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.