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 ...

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 ...

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.