Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

In 1852, Nathaniel Gordon sailed the Camargo to Brazil, illegally sold 500 enslaved Africans, and burned and sank the ship. Now divers think they’ve found it.

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

A new installation of 140 blocks of wood summons up a forgotten history, writes Melissa Chemam. Laid out on the stone courtyard of London's Somerset House, like the fossilised remains of a whale ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

After many voyages bringing captives from Africa to the New World, the Henriqueta was captured and made part of an antislavery squadron.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that allowed researchers to bring a lost slave ship to the surface, and now their findings are open to the public for the first time.

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...