On September 9th, 1980, the MV Derbyshire, the largest British-flagged cargo ship ever built, vanished into the Pacific ...

Romance and Reality,” at the Yale Center for British Art. Its reason for being is the artist’s 250th birthday, and why not?

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 ...

"We no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships." National Museum of Denmark marine archaeologist Andreas Kallmeyer Bloch said he'd "come close to giving up ...

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 ...

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. "Investigations of ...

The National Museum of Denmark has confirmed that two 18th-century shipwrecks in Cahuita National Park, long thought to be pirate ships, are the Danish slave ships Fridericus Quartus and Christianus ...

This painting is titled The Slave Ship, or as it was originally called, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon Coming On by JW Turner. This title reveals the harrowing story of what we ...

and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),” 1840, a canvas blistered with the trauma of enslaved people swallowed by the sea.

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...

Kate Taylor: Charles, where did this work come from ... particular aspect – the slave ships that were built in Newfoundland. Where did that idea start? Camille Turner: Growing up in Canada ...

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 ...