For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

U.S. singer Ciara is one of the first public figures to become a citizen of Benin under a recent law by the small West ...

The Slave Ship 13:15. The following script is from “The Slave Ship” which aired on November 1, 2015, and was rebroadcast on Aug. 21, 2016. Scott Pelley is the correspondent.

It was the last ship to ever make the transatlantic slave-trade journey from the coast of Africa to the shores of the U.S. in 1860, long after the slave trade had been outlawed.

As we prepare to celebrate Emancipation Day this Friday, we are called to reflect not only on our past, but also on the ...

Slave ships arrived on the west coast of Africa, where it took an average of six months to gather the entire the human cargo of slaves. The middle passage, as the journey to the Americas was known ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...

According to one strand of history, slavery was abolished when Europeans found their conscience. According to another, it was ...

On This Spanish Slave Ship, Nothing Was As It Seemed. Shortly after sunrise, on the morning of Feb. 20, 1805, sailors on an American ship called the Perseverance, anchored near an uninhabited ...

The Slave Ship The following script is from "The Slave Ship" which aired on November 1, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Nicole Young, producer.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of ...