More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...

The Rarest Fruit” depicts how Edmond Albius, a 19th-century Black wunderkind, solved a pollination puzzle.

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

The descendants of the final ship bringing enslaved Africans to the U.S. in 1860 gathered in Mobile, Alabama for a memorial ...

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

Clotilda Descendants Association holds annual Landing celebration, commemorating the arrival of the last group of Africans ...

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