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 ...

In world history, no topic is as culturally shameful, fraught, and continuously painful as slavery. Whether it's the extent of slavery among the world's oldest civilizations or the horrors of slavery ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, have ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

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 ...

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 ...