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

Arthur Brand worked with police to return the items to the Netherlands’ National Archives after they were found in an attic ...

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

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

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Anse Cafard Slave Memorial is ranked #1 out of 9 things to do in Martinique. See pictures and our review of Anse Cafard Slave Memorial.

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 ...

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

Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...

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 ...

Ashé Cultural Arts Center, the RTA and other groups unveiled a new mural at the Canal Street Ferry as part of the event.

As the civil rights movement intensified in the 1960s, the textbooks began to draw heavy criticism, largely for their depictions of slaves and post-Civil War African-Americans.