following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...

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 ...

Darron Patterson grew up here in historic Africatown, the community founded by West Africans illegally smuggled into Mobile on the Clotilda, the last documented slave ship brought to America. "That ...

And how had their journeys come to such violent ends? “According to historical sources, the two Danish slave ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus were shipwrecked off the coast of ...