An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

The movie series began in 2003 with the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where we join pirate captain Jack Sparrow and blacksmith Will Turner, p ...

Researchers say they have discovered an 18th century shipwreck near Madagascar which is believed to be a Portuguese ship captured by pirates in 1721. The site of the wreckage off the coast of ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

What is also clear from the slave names on the manifests of the slave trade ships is that the enslaved African-Americans of Virginia and Maryland did have a rich and extended family structure ...

For the 249th time, Americans hauled out the hot dogs and fired up the fireworks for the nation’s big birthday bash.

Flickr/Grille1991 The U-Boat Attacks off Myrtle Beach German submarines hunted ships off South Carolina in early 1942, bringing World War II to American shores. From January to June, Nazi U-boats sank ...

It was hard not to be swept up in the furore that Bristol faced when its links to the transatlantic slave trade were laid ...