One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

A captain believes he's closing in on the treasure of a French privateer, who he believes left behind a $200 million treasure ...

Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...

Tara sets off on the journey of a lifetime, joining divers who are searching for the wrecks of ships that carried enslaved ... search for and help document slave trade shipwrecks around the ...

For the purpose of admitting this needful refreshment, most of the ships in the slave trade are provided, between the decks, with five or six air-ports on each side of the ship, of about five ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...

A further act in 1820 ensured participation in the slave-trade came under piracy laws, which was punishable by death. A more determined enforcement effort followed. Ships such as the USS Shark ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

Anne Ruderman’s discovery of documents from a slave ship has shed new light on the way the industry operated, revealing more about the economics of this very specific market and providing a greater ...