Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on the banks of the river, where the ship remains ...

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

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

Next year, Virginia will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in English North America, who arrived on the slave ship that docked near the seawall of Old Point ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

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

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

In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

At first, this might look like any other sailing ship, but a sad secret is held in its cargo. Ships like this one were used to transport slaves to America. Over a period of four hundred years, more ...

A slave who once couldn’t afford the $800 price to secure his family’s freedom, Robert Smalls went on to buy his former slave owner’s home after he risked everything to escape slavery.