The old dictum that the press promotes the views of those who own and support it was as true during slavery and apartheid as ...

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

In his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black ...

From slave ships to trade ships Robert Le Hunte Jul 26, 2025 3 min to read Robert Le Hunte ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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 ...

This includes researching, discovering, and documenting slave shipwrecks, such as The Guerrero, a Spanish slave ship that wrecked in 1827 near the Florida Keys.

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 ...

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.