Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

Also documented are details on nearly 221,000 individuals involved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including ship captains and the humans they trafficked. The project's website, launched in ...

From Slave I to the Mist Hunter, each of the original six bounty hunters brought a unique starship to the galaxy's underworld. This video explores their ship designs, weaponry, and how they ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

When Pope John Paul II visited the island in 1992, he apologized on behalf of Europe and denounced the clerics who had blessed the slave ships, Coly remembers. Preserving the memory of Gorée ...

Tara Roberts recently wrote that between the 16th and 19th centuries, thousands of African slaves on slave ships drowned when the ships they were on sank (“Written in the Waters: A Memoir of ...

Or Phillis Wheatley, who as a child survived capture in Africa and passage on a slave ship to arrive in Boston Harbor in 1761, where she was purchased by the Wheatley family. After being taught to ...