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.

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 ...

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 ...

Nature has inspired artists for generations. The term art has always conjured visions of beautiful landscapes and natural ...

There is a list of other possible name changes of ships named after prominent women and civil rights leaders, a U.S. official ...

"We first were going to call it 'From Slave Ship to Championship,'" said Lloyd ... ceremony." One of four "poster girls" helping to promote the fight, Porche said she first met Ali at a charity ...

This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred ... the Camargo had become a puzzle for “braille archeology,” the art of forensic reconstruction via touch.

In fewer than four hours, Robert Smalls had done something unimaginable: In the midst of the Civil War, this black male slave had commandeered a heavily armed Confederate ship and delivered its 17 ...