Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. An undated portrait of Matilda McCrear, the slave ship Clotilda's last survivor, shows her in her later years. She died in 1940 at ...

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 ...

Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, at a slave port in what's now Benin. In 1860—52 years after the United States ...

According to a statement released by the National Museum of Denmark, however, a new investigation revealed them to be the remains of two former Danish slave ships that dramatically sank more than ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more light on the role played by Denmark in the transatlantic trafficking of ...

The findings of an alleged slave ship off the coast of Costa Rica. (photo credit: National Museum of Denmark) Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American coast in 1710, shedding more light on the role played by Denmark in the transatlantic trafficking of ...

“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” Dr Gregory said.