Unlimited, the section of Art Basel dedicated to monumental works and performances, is always filled with big ideas. This ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York ... s new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In his series of paintings If Black Saints Could Fly ...

Marine expert Edmond O’Byrne's team believes they have discovered the likely remains of the Recovery, an 18th-century that carried valuable cargo before it sank.

And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade.

Ona Judge, a former slave to George and Martha Washington, escaped to her eventual freedom in Portsmouth. A mural will honor ...

This week's letters to the editor address a writer's perceived parallels to 1938 Germany, Evergreen Park and the ship of ...

a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of ...

NEW HAVEN — How much is too much Turner? New England’s determined to put it to the test. The past few years have seen no less ...

Art: Thom Tenery The captives who arrived aboard ... (See how archaeologists pieced together clues to identify the long-lost slave ship.) "The discovery of the Clotilda sheds new light on a ...

The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...