During the Middle Passage more than a 1,000 slave ships sank on the way from Africa to the Americas, drowning an estimated 1.8 million people, most of them Africans. Less than 20 of those sunken slave ...

HAMPTON, Virginia ‒ As a child, Djimon Hounsou played soccer on the beaches of his native Benin, a small country in West Africa. He didn't know then that those same beaches had been a “path of no ...

The world’s largest ship set sail on Sunday, making its debut out of Port Canaveral, Florida. Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas has 20 decks and eight neighborhoods with seven pools. It accommodates ...

In the 1970s, a Catholic priest began investigating forced labor on an Amazon ranch. Now a Brazilian judge has ordered Volkswagen to pay $30 million in damages. RIO DE JANEIRO — Volkswagen Brazil was ...

A Carnival Panorama cruise ship tilted during rough weather in the Mexican Riviera on August 20. The listing was likely caused by wind and rain, a rare occurrence that cruise ships are designed to ...

SEATTLE — The captain of a container ship was arrested Wednesday in Seattle for allegedly operating the vessel while intoxicated, according to the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS). The ...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WJAR) — A bronze sculpture depicting people impacted by the transatlantic slave trade and their descendants was unveiled at Independence Park in Bristol on Sunday. The life-size bronze ...

A container ship captain was arrested after authorities accused him of operating the vessel while drunk, with a blood alcohol level six times the legal limit for mariners. The captain of the MSC ...

If there's one thing that LEGO knows how to design really well, it's ships. Some of their most involved, most sophisticated builds have been ships. The LEGO Titanic set a high bar for historical ...

In 1914, two years after the Titanic embarked on its ill-fated maiden voyage, the steam-powered SS Medina rolled off the shipyard at Newport News, Virginia. The vessel has had many lives — and many ...

On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the narrative long taught in US schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery. He focused on The Smithsonian ...

EAST HADDAM — Venture Smith, who lived from 1729 to 1805 and became the first Black man to document his capture in Africa and life as an enslaved person, will be memorialized for the 29th year during ...