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

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 ...

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 ...

Slave ships arrived on the west coast of Africa, where it took an average of six months to gather the entire the human cargo of slaves. The middle passage, as the journey to the Americas was known ...

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 ...

“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 Portuguese slave ship had left Mozambique Island four weeks earlier and headed along the East African coast with its cargo of 500 captives, bound for the rice and cotton plantations of ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The 1805 event inspired Herman Melville's Benito... On This Spanish Slave Ship, Nothing Was As It Seemed Shortly after sunrise, on the morning of Feb. 20, 1805, sailors on an American ship called ...

The following script is from “The Slave Ship” which aired on November 1, 2015, and was rebroadcast on Aug. 21, 2016. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Nicole Young, producer. This past fall ...