Outside of historians, academics and the generational memories of Black New Orleanians, relatively few people understand the ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

Rebellion’s brand new IP set in the north of England is the company’s most successful launch in its 32-year history, it said. Rebellion is the developer behind the popular Sniper Elite series ...

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

In 1811, enslaved people along Louisiana's German Coast organized the largest slave revolt in United States history. The beginning of chattel slavery in North America birthed something else ...

Now her living grandchildren are learning of her life and legacy. An undated portrait of Matilda McCrear, the slave ship Clotilda's last survivor, shows her in her later years. She died in 1940 at ...

København - Recent archaeological findings off the coast of Costa Rica have uncovered the wrecks of two Danish slave ships that sank in 1710. These vessels, which were originally tasked with ...

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.

The first American-built slave trader of which there is a definite record was the ship Desire, a vessel of 120 tons, built at Marblehead in 1636. The Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, after the ...

Marine archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery off the coast of Costa Rica, shedding new light on a mystery that has puzzled historians for centuries. What were once believed to be pirate ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...