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 ship, the São José Paquete, wouldn’t make it to Brazil, but its sunken remains have sparked global media coverage of the 18th-century slave trade. A team of investigators from the U.S. and ...

Nicole Ulrich, Popular Community in 18th-Century Southern Africa: Family, Fellowship, Alternative Networks, and Mutual Aid at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795, Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol ...

The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation over illustrations in a right-wing magazine that portrayed Black politician Danièle Obono as an 18th-century slave.