For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

Love in a hopeless place: two lovebirds were kidnapped from Angola and forced into labor in the Americas, yet they maintained their bond, research shows.

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.The theme for Black History Month ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and bayonets,” killing a man known as Galloway or Gallaway, according to ...

Like many other African Americans, I can only trace my family lineage back to one or maybe two generations. There is not a ...

This repository provides a comprehensive list of radar and optical satellite datasets curated for ship detection, classification, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation tasks. These datasets ...

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

THE world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide against European ...

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 ...

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