He was born in London in 1788; was member of the House of Commons ... KELLY, HANNAH, the last slave in Pennsylvania, died in Cross Creek Township, Washington Co., Penn., aged 103 years.

IT COMMANDED THE AFRICAN SQUADRON FROM 1859 TO 1861, PATROLLING THE WEST AFRICAN COAST LOOKING FOR ILLEGAL SLAVE SHIPS. EVEN THOUGH SLAVERY WAS STILL LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THOSE YEARS ...

It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not hesitate, springing into action to execute his plan to seize the CSS Planter, a Confederate military cargo transport ship ... a former slave, sits outside ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...

But 18-year-old British snowboarder Mia Brookes’ recent success still manages to boggle the mind. Brookes is currently the top Briton and the seventh-ranked woman in the world in slopestyle and ...

British Defense Secretary John Healey told Parliament on Wednesday the Royal Navy was tracking a "Russian spy ship" that passed through U.K. waters, warning Russia's President Vladimir Putin ...

The British defense secretary told Parliament that the Yantar, which he described as a Russian spy ship, had come near Britain’s coast for the second time in a few months. By Stephen Castle and ...

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence was reflected in numbers on ledgers and spreadsheets. Their birth names ...

A Norwegian-owned, Russian-crewed ship that authorities initially suspected of involvement in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been ...

They failed and Clarkson survived. Clarkson gathered a diagram of the slave ship Brookes, showing the cramped conditions in which 450 enslaved people were stowed below decks. In 1787 Thomas ...

When other cruise lines — most notably Royal Caribbean — are building larger and larger cruise ships, Disney will be making three of its future ships smaller than its recent ones. Disney says ...

British snowboarder Mia Brookes has won her second consecutive Crystal Globe Big Air title. The 18-year-old, who in 2023 became the youngest world champion in snowboard history at the age of 16 ...