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 recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near Costa Rica. The vessels were shipwrecked in 1710.

Interview with Elaine Turner, Director, Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum Amazon denies plans to list tariff prices after President Trump calls Jeff Bezos to object Ryan Coogler’s ...

The Slave Wrecks Project, coördinated by the Smithsonian, uses maritime archeology to explore sunken ships such as the Clotilda and the Camargo. Julian Lucas reports.

‘Nat Turner: A Visionary History’ By Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 434 Pages. In August 1831, a slave, Methodist preacher, and prophet named Nat Turner led the only ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS Constellation is a fixture in Baltimore's Inner Harbor as hundreds of ...

The way JMW Turner depicted a storm at sea shocked his contemporaries, and foreshadowed the evolution of abstract art. ... Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Slave Ship (1840).

Both Charles Campbell and Camille Turner have been thinking about their ancestors. Jamaican-born visual artists working in Canada – he’s in Victoria; she is a Torontonian now living in L.A ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) now has on view a larger-than-life, vibrant depiction of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion by artist Christopher Myers.The ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...