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

In the opening scene of the Netflix documentary, Amy Bradley is Missing, several interviewees share their suspicions about ...

A memorial to enslaved Africans transported on Lancaster-owned ships as part of the Transatlantic slave trade has been ...

The Clotilda entered Alabama waters on July 9, 1860. Captain Foster waited for nightfall before sailing into Mobile Bay to ...

The following report is part of a Verite News series: "Devil's Bargain: How the slave trade built and sustained New Orleans" ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...

When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle ...

Solon's laws in ancient Athens protected slaves' rights, revealing a unique approach to slavery in the society of the ...

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

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa are discovered centuries after wrecking in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica, in the 1700s after revolts.

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been pirate ships.