“My maternal family comes from the Georgia Lowcountry — Savannah and a few of the surrounding Gullah islands. The family story that has been passed down to me is that some of our ancestors came in on ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Underwater archaeologists at the site of the São José slave ship wreck near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (courtesy Iziko Museums, all images via Smithsonian Institution) Long-lost between two reefs ...

The Henrietta Marie was an English slave ship that mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West in 1700. It was returning from a trip to Jamaica where 191 slaves were sold. Nearly 300 years later, a ...

National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts spoke with "GMA" about her journey. A trip to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture launched journalist Tara Roberts on a ...

Naval warfare is rich with dramatic episodes. One such that deserves to be much better known is the campaign waged by England in the early 19th century against African slavery. Among the contestants ...

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 ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...