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

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

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

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

Slavery lasted for approximately 246 years from 1619 to 1865. In addition to that, there were 12 years of Reconstruction and 91 years of Jim Crowism (legalized discrimination). It is estimated that ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Celebrating Black history by visiting one of these seven Black museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History Month.

The practice preceded and then coincided with the enslavement of more than 12 million Africans in ... secret Intertribal slavery was ongoing before Christopher Columbus’ ships made landfall ...