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

The artefact, though, that most moved me was a sampler completed in 1833 by Susannah Edwards, an enslaved girl removed from an illegal slaving ship by the Royal Navy and resettled in Sierra Leone as a ...

That rasping noise is the sound of knives being sharpened to plunge into the back of Meghan, and this bit’s important, Sussex ...

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Thomas Jefferson called slavery a “hideous blot” and “a moral depravity,” but held hundreds of Africans captive at Monticello. He condemned the trade in African bodies in the first draft of the ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for ... They still managed to kill the captain, Ramon Ferrer, and take control of the ship, ...

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel ... Poor Mrs. Bradshaw didn't look much like singing--all wore out slaving. Old Joe starts out once in a while to buy her a present and brings home some ...

Transporting massive cargo like oil rigs, cruise ships, and even other ships requires something extraordinary—semi-submersible heavy transport vessels. These engineering marvels, like the BOKA ...

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Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel ...