For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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 ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

The "Circle of Chains" memorial by Steven Whyte, powerfully honors the enslaved individuals who contributed to the state's ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

Chandra and Brandon Carr remember taking their children to visit the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit last year. Upon seeing a replica of a slave ship packed with ...

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

Anchorage is getting a new public art piece where Ship Creek, the Ship Creek trail and the Alaska Railroad converge, a part ...

The ocean floor is a graveyard containing the remains of historic voyages and the wreckage of small-scale maritime tragedies.

Disneyland once had a Captain Hook-themed pirate ship restaurant in a Fantasyland pond (eventually including Skull Rock), but it was removed in the 1980s to make way for New Fantasyland. Other Bushman ...

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.