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, ...

US President Donald Trump has praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking "good English" and asked him where he ...

The US president asked where Joseph Boakai learned to speak "so beautifully" at a White House meeting with West African ...

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

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...