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How about this?’ ” In “Lose Your Mother,” she wrote of a girl who was tortured to death on a British slave ship, possibly because she had refused to dance naked for the captain.
The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.
There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.
Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.
Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.
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.
Sharon Lane, 77, has left California behind to live on board Villa Vie Odyssey a residential cruise ship circumnavigating the globe. She says it was the fulfilment of a dream a long time coming.
Chandra and Brandon Carr remember taking their children to visit the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit last year. Upon seeing a replica of a slave ship packed with ...
Defense Secretary Hegseth announces Navy oil tanker renaming from gay rights leader Harvey Milk to Medal of Honor recipient Oscar V. Peterson to take "politics out of ship naming." ...
The United States is maneuvering its military assets, including naval assets, in anticipation of an Iranian retaliation against Israel for its unprecedented strike against Iran. Here’s a look at ...