The transportation network for escaped slaves during the mid-1800s passed right through Delaware, a 95-mile trail spanning ...

“Personal to Political” lives up to its name at Sarasota Art Museum. It showcases the work of 17 Black contemporary artists ...

Thomas Ries. Sheboygan. The ship of state featured in our American Dream. Recently, my wife and I watched from the 11th deck buffet of the Grandeur of the Seas as it steamed down the dark channel ...

Is there a right or wrong way to celebrate Juneteenth? Organizers are asking this and other questions as battles rage over history and diversity.

Author Russell Shorto, in his book “Taking Manhattan,” described the negotiations between Dutch Director General Peter ...

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama. The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis ...

The bullet-shaped central motif of this work reverses the well-known 18th-century illustration of the plan of the British slave ship Brookes to draw attention to the horrors of the Middle Passage.

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts unearths slave ship stories in "Into The Depths." Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our ...