From Myanmar slave camps to Russian war zones—how overseas job hunters are falling prey to armed trafficking rings and fake ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in ... as well as the slaves who were chained to the cargo hold. The chilling statues at this memorial are a ...

Slavery lasted for approximately 246 years from 1619 to 1865. In addition to that, there were 12 years of Reconstruction and 91 years of Jim Crowism (legalized discrimination). It is estimated that ...

Samuel Bellamy was born to working class parents in 17th-century England, but he died the richest pirate who ever lived.

“This trip is using lessons from the Underground Railroad to teach humanity,” says Walker, who has been leading tours for Footsteps to Freedom since it was founded 28 years ago by Cheryl and Hardy ...

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 ...

A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves. (7News) ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence was reflected in numbers on ledgers and spreadsheets. Their birth names ...

One of the U.S. Navy's eleven aircraft carriers collided with a Panama-flagged merchant ship Wednesday off the Egypt coast near the Suez Canal.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision with a merchant ship near Egypt in the ...

Feb 9 (Reuters) - A district in Russia's Sakhalin region has been put on high alert after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off the southwest coast of the Sakhalin Island, the governor of the ...