With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

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 ...

following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...

A Norwegian ship suspected of being involved in "serious damage" to an underwater telecoms cable between Latvia and Sweden has been boarded by police. The Silver Dania cargo vessel, with an all ...

John Duckens was born into slavery in Kentucky around 1820. In the 1850s he escaped and made his way to Ohio and then Indiana. He eventually found work on ships plying the Great Lakes. In 1856 ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...

Russia denies any role in the damage. But Pevkur doesn’t buy it, blaming Russia’s sanctions-busting ships, a so-called “shadow fleet” of aging tankers accused of seeking to evade Western ...

Between the unlimited buffet, glamorous destinations, and entertainment around the clock, living on a cruise ship sounds luxurious, but there's a whole other world below deck. I've worked on ...

Moak, USN. via U.S. Navy from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command) The ex-John F. Kennedy (CV 67) began its final journey this morning as it departed from the U.S. Navy’s ...