HAMPTON — The life of Dinah Small Burdoo, believed to be the last formerly enslaved person to live in Hampton, was honored on ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...