HOUSTON -- While ships like the Mayflower, Titanic, and Santa Maria are commonly remembered, few can name even one of the estimated 12,000 vessels that carried enslaved Africans across the Middle ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

WASHINGTON — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. At first, this might look like any ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new project aimed at honoring the history of enslaved Africans in America is set to take shape in Richmond. City leaders, in partnership with The Shockoe Project, have ...