Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

They were packed like cargo onto the slave ship the Morovia (or the York; accounts vary). Their fate was excruciatingly obvious, and the only answer was a rebellion.

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

Thomas Ries. Sheboygan. The ship of state featured in our American Dream. Recently, my wife and I watched from the 11th deck buffet of the Grandeur of the Seas as it steamed down the dark channel ...

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

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.

When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis ...

All crew members are safe after a fire broke out aboard a cargo ship south of Alaska's Adak Island. The ship was carrying 3,000 vehicles, including nearly 800 electric vehicles, bound for Mexico. Menu ...

Israel suggests it will block Greta Thunberg’s aid ship from reaching Gaza. The ‘Madleen’ set sail from Italy aiming to deliver a ‘symbolic’ amount of aid to the enclave .