Centuries after Danish ships carrying enslaved people from West Africa disappeared in the Caribbean, the charred and destroyed remains have been identified for the first time. In 2023, researchers and ...

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

The remains of two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica , previously thought to be pirate ships, have finally ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to ...

A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to ...

Tara Roberts, the first Black woman to ever grace the cover of the National Geographic magazine, is tracking slave ships.

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

Esek Hopkins was born on April 26, 1718 in Scituate to a prominent Rhode Island family. Hopkins became a merchant and sea ...

Star Wars nerds are furious after a recently announced Lego set failed to refer to a character’s ship by its original name, ...

Or Phillis Wheatley, who as a child survived capture in Africa and passage on a slave ship to arrive in Boston Harbor in 1761, where she was purchased by the Wheatley family. After being taught to ...