An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

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 ...

It was hard not to be swept up in the furore that Bristol faced when its links to the transatlantic slave trade were laid ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...