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A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in ...

The story of the Underground Railroad that ran north may be well-known—the network of safe houses and transport routes slaves took to freedom in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The musical Mexodus ...

Explore the play "Mexodus," the lesser-known routes of the Underground Railroad, leading to freedom in Mexico and beyond.

A woman who was taken from Africa when she was just two years old has been identified as the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Matilda McCrear was taken from West Africa to Mobile, ...

A diver off the coast of Sisal, Mexico, investigates the wreck of La Unión in 2017. Helena Barba-Meinecke / Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Off the coast of Sisal, Mexico, remnants of a ...