Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, at a slave port in what's now Benin. In 1860—52 years after the United States ...

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 ...

Richmond is slowly coming to terms with its past as a major slave-trading market. The Richmond Slave Trail, a self-guided walking tour of 17 sites, chronicles the trade of enslaved Africans to ...

How river charterer Transcend is making inroads with tour operatorsThe brand designed its river cruise ships with the MICE market in mind, but it now says that land-based tour operator charters ...

Among other things, "Cavalier Commonwealth," the high school book, said a slave "did not work so hard as the average free laborer, since he did not have to worry about losing his job." In another ...