It’s important to tackle the topic in an age-appropriate way, experts say—and to make sure children understand how the legacy of slavery informs life today.

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

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

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Between the treasure value and the ransom money, the haul would have been an "eye-watering treasure, even by pirate standards ...

The slave system demanded that the master care for the slave in childhood, in sickness, and in old age. The regard that master and slaves had for each other made plantation life happy and prosperous." ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

California’s Senate Education Committee cleared the way for a bill that would allow colleges and universities to give preference to descendants of slavery in admissions.

Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...