Scott Pelley reports on the Smithsonian and the Slave Wrecks Project's journey to recover the first artifacts known to be preserved from a slave ship The following script is from "The Slave Ship ...

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guinea ship, as the vessels were also known ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

“One of the chiefs took a vessel we had, filled it with soil and asked us to bring that vessel back to the site of the slave ship so that, for the first time since the 18th century, his people ...

The First Battle of Charleston Harbor occurred on April 7, 1863, almost a year after Robert Smalls escaped slavery after commandeering a Confederate ship at the same site. (Wikimedia Commons ...

A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

The state-owned traffic triangle at the intersection of America's Cup and Upper Thames Street is planned to house the ...

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 was a sleek, two-masted clipper ship ...