For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.

Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the ...

The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...

As we continue our observance of black history month, we do a deeper dive into the life of the first black property owner in the region. Bladen not only was the first black property owner, he was ...

This repository provides a comprehensive list of radar and optical satellite datasets curated for ship detection, classification, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation tasks. These datasets ...

A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves.

In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

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