Twenty years ago a photographer covering the Sri Lankan conflict returned to London with a plan to find a better way of ...

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 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 ...

ExploreDivers plunge for hard truths looking for sunken slave ships She chronicles their work in her new memoir, “Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home and Belonging,” released today.

“The Agency” is a spy thriller with a brilliant cast that includes Richard Gere (“The Jackal”), Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”), Jodie Turner-Smith (“The Last Ship”) and ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...

One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton, a former slave ship captain who became an abolitionist. He visited slave trading ports where he boarded slave ships. He collected ...

Added the executive, who is the brother of writer Adrian Wassel: “He told us ‘I have this idea that I‘ve been trying to see if this would be a cool graphic novel.’ We flew to LA and met ...

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course. An exciting book with no words, a murder mystery ...