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

I have an ancestor who was in Massachusetts in 1640. What is the best way to research ships that arrived before that time?

Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s semiquincentennial (an anniversary that sadly lacks the pithy brevity of 1976’s ...

The park's name comes from a shipwrecked Quaker merchant who was captured by natives off Jupiter with his family in 1696.

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.

Archaeologists from the National Museum of Denmark recently announced that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were confirmed to be slave ships. According to Fox News, the ...

Archaeologist David John Gregory recently spoke with Fox News Digital about the haunting discovery of Danish two slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, in Costa Rica.

The truth is Spaniards settled in St. Augustine, Florida, with enslaved blacks more than a half-century before any arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 aboard a ship captured by English pirates.

Not if a 17th-century Portuguese king hadn’t dreamed of a trans-African empire; if an obscure African kingdom had been more stable; if two pirate ships looking for gold hadn’t, in the vastness ...

Prime Minister Tony Blair has voiced his "deep sorrow" over Britain's role in the slave trade on Monday - a trade that helped Britain become one of the world's greatest powers in the 17th and 18th ...

Their victims, often referred to as “black gold,” were then marched 500 to 1,000 miles in chains to the coast, where they were uploaded onto the awaiting slave ships.

Kimbell exhibition showcases the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century 125 works on loan from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts include portraits, landscapes, still lifes and scenes of everyday life.