We’ve come from slave ship to spaceship, and we will continue to rise into endeavors far beyond that.” Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET on the Smithsonian ...

In “The Last Slave Ship,” Ben Raines tells the story of the Clotilda, the founding of Africatown, Ala., and a history that wouldn’t stay buried.

Three years ago, a sunken ship was found in the bottom of an Alabama river. It turned out to be the long-lost wreck of the Clotilda – the last slave ship known to have brought captured Africans ...

How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves” More than 200 captive Africans were lost when the São José Paquete D’Africa went down in 1794.

Ben Raines, the author of “The Last Slave Ship,” draws upon Hurston’s interviews with Lewis, as well as a bevy of other first-person accounts of the enslaved, to put together a ...

In 1852, Nathaniel Gordon sailed the Camargo to Brazil, illegally sold 500 enslaved Africans, and burned and sank the ship. Now divers think they’ve found it.

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...

click image for close-up Interior of a Slave Ship, a woodcut illustration from the publication, A History of the Amistad Captives, reveals how hundreds of slaves could be held within a slave ship ...

Divers found two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, sunk near Costa Rica. These 18th-century vessels were shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean in 1710.