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

As we continue our observance of black history month, we do a deeper dive into the life of the first black property owner in ...

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New World slave owners, who bought slaves ... a year -- until they were boarded on ships. Just as horrifying as these death ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

Cudjoe Lewis could scarcely move. He was traveling across the Atlantic on an 86-foot cargo sailing vessel named the Clotilda. The cargo hold where he sat was cramped. It was loaded with the usual ...

Ships carried weapons and manufactured goods ... Even the intimacy of a man and a woman was subject to the absolute control of slave-owners. Grace and Guy were given the surname of their new ...

Tobacco, cotton, coffee, rice and sugar plantation owners needed cheap labor and ... protecting slaves freed from captured slave ships. Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in ...

In 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw 132 captive Africans overboard to save drinking water and prevent rebellion. The ship's owners attempted to claim compensation for lost cargo.

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

Researchers believe they have found a long-lost American slave trafficking ship, thanks to the help of a local fisherman. The ship, known as the Carmango, was discovered in waters between Rio de ...