A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...

The captain of the Isabelita is identified as ... and 204 years ago, there are slave ships out here? It's kind of hard to reconcile," Paluska said. "And it is real," Zsiga said.

Deep in the waters off the Western Coast of Florida, secrets are waiting to be unearthed in the Gulf. "It's just endless, the story of what went on in these waters," Joe Zsiga, AKA Captain Joe of Epic ...

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle ... In the grisly arithmetic of the slave trade, captains usually chose between two options: pack in as many slaves as possible ...

And the Clotilda’s African survivors, who were removed from the ship as the captain burned it to hide ... ancestors from the nation’s last known slave ship. “That's often not what you ...

as well as to ship captains and wealthy merchants who were coming into port. It was even more unusual for the establishment serving them to be owned and operated by a former slave. Emmanuel ...

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

This waterfront spot downtown is one of Key West’s most photographed attraction, claiming the southernmost point in the continental United States and a landmark “90 miles to Cuba.” You will likely ...