The historical marker for the St. Louis Hotel, the most famous slave auction site in New Orleans, is placed at the back of ...

Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

Finding myself in the other Charleston over the long weekend as a byproduct of the youth travel sports racket, I decided to ...

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 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 ...

Foster left West Africa with 110 young men, women, and children crowded into the schooner ... But a national slave ship memorial—akin to the watery grave of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor ...

Much of Bristol's 18th Century wealth came from the slave trade Slaves were transported in miserable conditions, crowded into cargo holds and with ... of £100 for every slave found aboard a British ...

This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred souls across the Atlantic before it burned. It was the sixth of November, and I was diving with a group of maritime archeologists in ...

The Portuguese knew these women bartered, bargained and sold their goods at the crowded local markets ... captives in being rowed out to the slave ships anchored in the harbor.