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

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

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

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

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

Recently, the Trump administration deported immigrants in airplanes to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. Very much ...

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

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

Also documented are details on nearly 221,000 individuals involved with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including ship captains and the humans they trafficked. The project's website, launched in ...

When Pope John Paul II visited the island in 1992, he apologized on behalf of Europe and denounced the clerics who had ...

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