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

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

Danish slave ships from 1710 confirmed in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Excavations reveal Fridericus Quartus and ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A plaque unveiling on Saturday recognized Lewis Quarters, 7 acres purchased by survivors of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in the U.S. During a ceremony ...

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 ...

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 ...

“You think about [the dance] the limbo, which is actually a Caribbean form of dance, but that came out of this idea of slave ships, how tight they were and how confined they were.” And while ...