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 ...

This photo taken on March 18, 2025, shows the remains of a palm oil factory where slaves were subjected to forced labor, at ...

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on ...

Nearly 500 years after it set sail, a shipwreck was discovered in an African desert. Remarkably, it was still intact, as it ...

following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...

HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully launched the first LPD Flight II, San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship Harrisburg (LPD 30) on Saturday, October 5, 2024. HII Photo ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help descendants of enslaved people reconstruct their family histories.

Disney Cruise Line is now putting the finishing touches on its biggest ship yet, and the company has just released new details on what awaits guests on its maiden voyage later this year.

The world's largest container ship, the MSC Irina, has officially entered service, boasting a length of three football pitches and weighing the same as 250,000 cars. With a twenty-foot equivalent ...

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The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...