Last month marked the 176th anniversary of the slave-led mutiny aboard the schooner Amistad. That act of bravery on July 1, 1839, resulted in freedom for 35 Africans after a legal process that ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...

*The Clotilda was burned and sunk in an Alabama River after bringing 110 imprisoned Africans across the Atlantic in 1860. Two years ago, its remains were discovered in the bottom of an Alabama river.

"From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States--a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into ...

PART I. RECOVERING THE STORY. Cleared for Africa --- Shadows on the Wall --- Creating a Record --- How Did You Find Me? ---- PART II. THE HAUNTED LAND. Meeting the Slave Traders --- Another Century, ...

A former slave’s attempt to lead a rebellion in Charleston during the summer of 1822 would forever alter life in the ...