In Freedom Ship, Marcus Rediker (a professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author, among other books, of The ...

Pirate shipwrecks off Costa Rica, long shrouded in mystery, have been revealed to hide a dramatic 1710 maritime story lost to ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

Costa Rica’s Shipwrecks Revealed as Slave Ships Located near Cahuita National Park on Costa ... enslaved Africans from Ghana to the Dutch colony of St. Thomas when a rebellion erupted onboard. As the ...

But the rebellion failed and the ship's crew cut off their ... convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships," David Gregory, a marine ...

"A rebellion by the enslaved people ... "The endeavor by the community and the scientists to identify the sunken slave ships appeared in the 2020 television documentary series "Enslaved," hosted ...