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 ...

Deep beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a remarkable hunt is unfolding. Joe Sziga, a retired fisherman turned treasure ...

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

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic ... Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low ...

That cargo was human beings, with a total of 95 enslaved ... and 204 years ago, there are slave ships out here? It's kind of hard to reconcile," Paluska said. "And it is real," Zsiga said.

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

As stated, the voyage to the Americas lasted about 80 days. Slave ships were packed to overcapacity with human cargo. The more slaves shipped, the more money. Thousands of slaves died while in ...

An illustration showing how enslaved Africans were stored in the cargo hold of slave ships for transportation across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. On the coast of Western Africa ...