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Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...

Last month marked the 176th anniversary of the slave-led mutiny aboard the schooner Amistad. That act of bravery on July 1, 1839, resulted in freedom for 35 Africans after a legal process that ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Nat Geo Explorer Tara Roberts quit her job, learned to dive, and now helps discover the underwater wrecks of slave ships around the world with an incredible group of Black conservationists. National ...