History presents the Whydah Gally's crew as swashbuckling sailors who looted a fortune before perishing in a storm. But ...

The “Clotilda,” the last slave ship to bring Africans to America, has been much in the news recently. After long years in a drawer, Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon” was finally published in 2018.

Shortly after sunrise, on the morning of Feb. 20, 1805, sailors on an American ship called the Perseverance, anchored near an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, spied a weird vessel drifting ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new project aimed at honoring the history of enslaved Africans in America is set to take shape in Richmond. City leaders, in partnership with The Shockoe Project, have ...

As darkness enveloped the waters of Charleston Harbor, Robert Smalls realized that he would have no better chance to escape slavery than that morning. It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not hesitate, ...

Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch government reportedly plans to apologize for its role in the slave trade ...

RICHMOND, Va. — City and state leaders unveiled plans on Monday for a life-size replica slave ship with amphitheater seating and a granite memorial wall at Ancarrow's Trailhead in Richmond. Those new ...

They gathered Saturday on the banks of the Mobile River to commemorate an utterly bleak moment, as their ancestors were delivered into slavery. They did not gather to mourn. They gathered to celebrate ...