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.

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 vessel was also built by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries. The Philippines has increasingly relied on South Korea as a key supplier of defense and military equipment, with the Defense department ...

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.

They were Danish slave ships, used to traffic human beings from Africa to North America. Dendrochonology research done on the ships' wood indicates that the ships were constructed between 1690 and ...

Underwater archaeologists may have found the Recovery, an 18th-century British treasure ship lost off Wexford, Ireland, that carried valuable cargo including marble and bronze.

William Kidd charms passengers on his ship. (Image credit: Universal History Archive via Getty Images) On Jan. 30, 1698, Capt. William Kidd captured a vessel named the "Quedagh Merchant" that was ...

The Igbo made a conscious decision. They knew that a life of agony and horror awaited them, so they decided to walk into the water. In most oral retellings of what happened, they sang, “By the ...

A slave named Peter, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 2, 1863. ... The ship Desire brought a cargo of Africans from Barbados to Boston in 1634; these people were sold as slaves.

The event’s curator, Thomas Lax, was waiting inside the tent to show Hartman around. (Hartman’s partner, Samuel Miller, a civil-rights attorney, had stayed home in Manhattan to help their teen ...

Hanwha Ocean announced on the 30th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with two local companies, BlackBerry and L3 Harris MAPPS, to strengthen collaboration in the Canadian ...