Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860 ... like the people in Benin who sold the slaves, and William Foster, who captained the ship. “Slavery is wrong,” Meaher ...

She was listed as “Angelo” in the 1624 census, living in Lieutenant William Pierce’s home in ... (See also: Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama.) A 1790 engraving showing ...

Nature has inspired artists for generations. The term art has always conjured visions of beautiful landscapes and natural ...

It entered on board that fatal slave ship, "built in the eclipse and rigged ... no other man wishes to resemble. -- Letter to William Drummond, Aug. 33, 1766. (Boswell's Life of Johnson, by ...

A state commission planning an anti-slavery monument in downtown Richmond voted Wednesday to include Nat Turner, the leader of a bloody 1831 slave uprising ... and William Harvey Carney, a Norfolk ...

The Shonen world has had its fair share of dark series released in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, with Chainsaw Man being a ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Five of JMW Turner’s works are to be auctioned across three sales on the 250th anniversary of the painter’s birth. Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker ...

The 21-year-old sheet metalworker from East Kilbride had the task of escorting the Prince and Princess of Wales on to HMS Glasgow, just after Her Royal Highness performed the ship's official ...

At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month. By ...