New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The stones have been key to identifying slave ships; they often were used to balance the weight of captives in a ship’s cargo hold. Storyteller and diver Tara Roberts is helping document some of ...

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

“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 ...

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

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 ...

The letters stood for “Slave Stealer”: They were burned into his flesh by his jailer at Pensacola, Fla., where he was imprisoned in 1844 for attempting to sail seven fugitive slaves to safety ...

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 ...