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

Out of necessity, then, the National Socialists had to derive most of their financing via membership fees, storm troopers ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Olufemi Farouk is a tour guide at the Mobee Slave Relics Museum in Badagri, Nigeria. 1010 WINS spoke with him about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Underwater artifacts make up a small proportion of colonial-era heritage, but as their number increases, the time is ripe for ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

IT COMMANDED THE AFRICAN SQUADRON FROM 1859 TO 1861, PATROLLING THE WEST AFRICAN COAST LOOKING FOR ILLEGAL SLAVE SHIPS. EVEN THOUGH SLAVERY WAS STILL LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THOSE YEARS ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...