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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.
Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...