Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

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 ...

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

Although he is known for his ethereal romantic landscapes, many of them are laced with critical statements surrounding heavy historical subjects.