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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

for captains to take high ranking Africans on board ships to travel to Europe. However, it was more likely to happen on the west coast of Africa where the slave trade was more established and ...