A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts.

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

Tara Roberts, Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic, came to Western Illinois University in Macomb to talk about her ...

Knight. Enslaved Africans being transported to a Portuguese slave ship. Millions of Africans enslaved and held in slave fortresses were transported to the plantations of the Americas and Caribbean.

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

As a result of the passage of this bill, not only was the slave trade to be brought to an end in 1807 but that a squadron of ships of the Royal Navy was to be set to patrol along the West African ...