Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...

Hundreds of sunken slave ships are scattered across the floors of the Atlantic Ocean. Many of them never to be seen again. But Diving With a Purpose, a group of predominantly Black divers, has been on ...

An insurance trial about a heinous episode at sea outraged British abolitionists. The case led Parliament to prohibit the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In the murky waters of an Alabama river, diver Kamau Sadiki said he had to pause before entering the last known slave ship to the United States, where 110 people were confined ...

Roberts appeared on the latest episode of ‘Acting Up,’ and broke down the podcast and how these slaves ships are ultimately discovered Per the official podcast description, Into the Depths, “explores ...

“My maternal family comes from the Georgia Lowcountry — Savannah and a few of the surrounding Gullah islands. The family story that has been passed down to me is that some of our ancestors came in on ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...

Researchers studying Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach America in 1860, have discovered most of the ship is still intact – down to an unventilated pen for captives. Two-thirds of the ship ...

Underwater archaeologists at the site of the São José slave ship wreck near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (courtesy Iziko Museums, all images via Smithsonian Institution) Long-lost between two reefs ...

Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) — Author Ben Raines is somewhat incredulous that more isn’t already being done to prepare and create a memorial and museum to commemorate the last slaves brought from Africa to ...

Divers searched for the sunken vessel in the coast of Angra dos Reis. (all images courtesy AfrOrigens Institute) Researchers say they may have found a slave ship dating back to the 19th century off ...