In her first moments here, I worried we had made a mistake. But there is something comforting about seeing her sipping wine ...

A shipwreck hidden off an iconic Cape Town beach reveals the horrors of the slave trade For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

The task force headed by the Alabama Historical Commission determined that the Clotilda, the last ship known to transport enslaved Africans to the United States, was too decayed to be extracted ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water as a memorial, a task force of historians and archaeologists has said.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — 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 ...

The Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the U.S., is too decayed to be extracted from an Alabama river and turned into a museum without dismembering it, a yearslong investigation has concluded.