Slavery lasted for approximately 246 years from 1619 to 1865. In addition to that, there were 12 years of Reconstruction and 91 years of Jim Crowism (legalized discrimination). It is estimated that ...

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 ...

Shippers, plantation owners, merchants and crews reaped massive profits. But historians know very little about the ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...

Stop! Put down your keycard, and step away from the inch-of-gold sale table. Cruise ship shops can be useful, but they're generally overpriced. They carry items you might have left at home and find ...

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 ...

Newly captured satellite imagery shows Russia appearing to evacuate military equipment from a key naval base in Syria. The images are the latest sign that Moscow is scaling down its footprint in ...

But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the Netherlands? And how is it reflected in the paintings of the time? This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of ...

ExploreDivers plunge for hard truths looking for sunken slave ships She chronicles their work in her new memoir, “Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home and Belonging,” released today.

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 ...

Today, though, this promise is under threat as a growing number of ports are implementing restrictions or outright bans on cruise ships. Cruise lines are facing new limits to their itineraries ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro hit out at his US counterpart Donald Trump in a fiery message, calling Trump a "white slaver" who is on track to "wipe out the human species" after Petro refused ...