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

A slave could become free by converting to ... the number of Africans brought to British colonies on British ships rose from 5,000 to 45,000 a year. England had passed Portugal and Spain as ...

In an effort to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, or "pestilences," among South Carolina's population, colonial authorities required incoming slave ships to unload their unfree passengers ...

More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island ... Masked as paid labour, Pacific people were tricked by colonial powers and forcibly taken from their homeland by boats.

Nantes, a city that prospered from maritime trade but for more than a century it was also France’s largest slave-trading port. Today the city is acknowledging this with one of Europe’s most ...

From 1768 to 1776, William Colhoun was a chief mate on slave ships that sailed from Glasgow to West Africa, the Carribean, and the British colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Below is one of a ...

Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...