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

Slave ships made large profits by carrying as many enslaved people as possible across the Atlantic to sell at auction. There were two methods of loading the ship: An illustration showing how ...

click image for close-up Dejected, depressed, and despondent, captives aboard slave ships felt they had nothing to lose and so took any opportunity to revolt. According to Alexander Falconbridge ...

Born a free man, he was enslaved, then set free. Once the captain of a slave ship, he later denounced the slave trade, becoming a great influence in its demise. After his mother's death when he ...

The letter advised him that an unnamed slave from Richmond, Va. gained his freedom by shipping himself in a box to Mr. McKim in Philadelphia, as if he were an order of dry goods. The letter notes ...

Onimata Kan is famous for two things: a successful career writing S&M erotica, and hosting the erotic gatherings aboard what has come to be known as the Slave Ship, where the main attraction is ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island. Bishop Silouan Silala Vea's ancestors were invited aboard for a meal in a gesture the villagers thought was "great hospitality ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...