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

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

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.

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Divers found two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, sunk near Costa Rica. These 18th-century vessels were shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean in 1710.

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday.

The British slave ship Zong, having sailed across the Atlantic towards Jamaica, threw 132 enslaved Africans from its human cargo into the sea to drown. Even for a slave ship, ...

The ship's crew, claiming water shortages, murdered the enslaved people aboard who were dehumanised and registered as cargo. The vessel's owners, a syndicate of Liverpool businessmen, then pursued ...

These observations, it must be remembered, were made in 18th-century England, a notably calloused age. Ordinary Caucasian life was held to be of little account, and the life of Africans of virtually ...

I read M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008) not as the song of the drowned slaves but the song of all of us, who are now becoming slaves, albeit by other names, on the slave ship Earth. In November 1781, ...

I read M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008) not as the song of the drowned slaves but the song of all of us, who are now becoming slaves, albeit by other names, on the slave ship Earth. In November 1781, ...