For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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 ...

A recent talk by researcher Audrey Dewjee at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes revealed new findings on the region’s involvement in the ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

Fans pay tribute to Portugal and Liverpool forward Diogo Jota by leaving flowers at Anfield, after he and his brother both ...

More than 150 people from across the world have attended a gathering on the Anglican Church’s involvement in transatlantic ...

The museums you should visit in the UK, from contemporary art galleries to local history exhibitions - There are around 1,800 accredited museums in the UK – we have whittled down our favourites ...

The street made famous in song by The Beatles is named after a Liverpool slave ship owner and anti-abolitionist. Penny Lane is a street famous worldwide thanks to The Beatles 1967 hit, but the ...

Liverpool's role in the slave trade Liverpool played a central role in the transatlantic slave trade with much of the city’s 18th century wealth built on the profits from the transportation of ...

Ship which defied Nazi U-boats to transport vital resources during World War II to be scrapped and replaced with slavery reflection room in Liverpool ...

In 1783, the City of London was gripped by a court case which symbolised the brutal economics of slavery. Two years previously, the Liverpool slave ship Zong had set out from Accra, in present-day ...

Reviews With Ceremonies and Rituals, the Liverpool Biennial Takes an Unflinching Look at the City’s Participation in the Slave Trade Some 35 artists installed works at arts institutions and ...