The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Once the captain of a slave ship, he later denounced the slave trade, becoming a great influence in its demise. After his mother's death when he was seven, John Newton went to English schools that ...

Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage ... Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces ...

Sickness on board a slave ship would often spread to the crew as well, killing many. The death rate among the enslaved people however, was horrific. It is estimated that 15–16 per cent of ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

According to historical records, the Isabelita was a slave ship operating in the Western Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea waters. There is a Spanish Well near the Anclote Key boat ramp that ...