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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But while the slave trade is understood to be a shameful period of human ... These contained instructions from the ship’s owners, paperwork on the ship and letters from the captain. The documents also ...

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 ...

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.