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

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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 single broken plate helped a crew identify the SS Nantes shipwreck after 140 years, revealing the remnants of the vessel ...

It’s important to tackle the topic in an age-appropriate way, experts say—and to make sure children understand how the legacy of slavery informs life today.

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