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

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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 ...

It was the first trading post in that region ... Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved ...

Richards, who was named National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence last year, regularly joins Diving With a Purpose, a group of Black scuba divers who uncover and document slave shipwrecks in the ...

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...