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The ship illegally transported 110 people from Benin in Africa to Mobile from February to July 1860. RELATED: Clotilda, the last American slave ship, found in Alabama, historical commission says ...

The Slave Wrecks Project, coördinated by the Smithsonian, uses maritime archeology to explore sunken ships such as the Clotilda and the Camargo. Julian Lucas reports.

How a Sunken Slave Ship Set Off “a Search for Ourselves” More than 200 captive Africans were lost when the São José Paquete D’Africa went down in 1794.

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

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 ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...

A Spanish slave ship bound for Cuba, it was veering south toward Havana when an English antislavery schooner, the Nimble, spotted its sail on December 17, 1827. The two ships were locked in a ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...