One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...
The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.
The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...
National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...
which left Benin in West Africa a week ago. The ship was turned away from Cameroon, where the children aged only ten and 11 were to become slaves on cocoa plantations, and neighbouring Gabon.
Richards, who was named National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence last year, regularly joins Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black scuba divers who uncover and document slave shipwrecks in the ...