An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

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 ...

While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and creator of “The 1619 Project” argues that Trump’s civil rights rollback is ...

Centuries-old shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, long thought to have been the property of pirates, are actually Danish ...

This is one of the most dramatic events in Denmark’s maritime history — and now we know where it happened,” said marine ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central ...

following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...

Darron Patterson grew up here in historic Africatown, the community founded by West Africans illegally smuggled into Mobile on the Clotilda, the last documented slave ship brought to America.