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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

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

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 ...