Nearly 200 years ago, the slave ship Guerrero sunk, killing forty-one Africans. The wreck vanished. Until now. A group of divers led by Ken Stewart, a Black man in his seventies, believe they ...

Laid out on the stone courtyard of London's Somerset House, like the fossilised remains of a whale, there is the outline of a slave ship. Made up of 140 blocks of charred wood, it is O Barco / The ...

Indeed, inside the 2,500-square-foot exhibit is a chronological telling of the Clotilda slave ship’s origins, its survivors and how the Africatown community north of downtown Mobile was settled.

The Clotilda, the last known U.S. slave ship, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860 with 110 enslaved people. Travel journalist Natalie Preddie visits and reports on the opening of "Clotilda: The ...

On July 8—the anniversary of the ship’s arrival—“Clotilda: The Exhibition” opened inside the new, $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House, located a few miles north of downtown Mobile.

A slave who once couldn’t afford the $800 price to secure his family’s freedom, Robert Smalls went on to buy his former slave owner’s home after he risked everything to escape slavery ...

Only the second of its kind in the country, The Griot Museum opened as "The Black World History Wax Museum" in 1997. The name changed to Griot in 2009.

‘Predator of the Seas’ Review: A Slave Ship Gets a New Mission After many voyages bringing captives from Africa to the New World, the Henriqueta was captured and made part of an antislavery ...