The illicit drug haul came from 11 interceptions of suspected drug smuggling vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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

The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision with a merchant ship near Egypt in the ...

Samuel Bellamy was born to working class parents in 17th-century England, but he died the richest pirate who ever lived.

Slavery was a business, a commerce, a financial enterprise expanding American capitalism. In fact, most economists agree that ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...