The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...

Roberts, 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 ...

Nonetheless, at least 2.8 million Africans were brought to the Americas ... But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence ...

A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves. (7News) ...

At least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by European ships and sold into slavery from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Britain enslaved over 3 million, and the City of ...

British maritime services firm Lloyd's Register apologised on Wednesday for its role in enslaving Africans in the 18th and 19th centuries. At least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly ...