The last slave ship, Clotilda, resurfaces in 3D in New York after more than a century sunk and hidden underwater.

Historians compare today's polarized politics and federal immigration enforcement to the intense debates over fugitive slave laws in the 1850s, revealing striking parallels.

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

NEW ORLEANS – Thousands of tourists stream into the French Quarter each year through beautiful Esplanade Avenue, an oak tree-studded stretch known for its Creole cottages. The tremendous trees are a ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the campaign to quash the teachings of America’s brutal history of slavery intensifies, Joseph McGill Jr. has waged a counterattack by way of a poignant three-day conference in ...

Kathleen Sullivan shares the discovery of her former home's connections to the slave trade and the pitfalls of a romanticized ...

HENDERSON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Following through on a promise to build his grandchildren a space to play, Kenneth Spellman discovered his newly purchased property held priceless stories of North Carolina's ...

The Alexandria slave trading facility once occupied by Franklin and Armfield, as it appeared after its liberation by Union forces during the Civil War. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs ...

In "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon & Schuster), author Ilyon Woo recounts a remarkable 19th century story of deception, in which a fair-skinned enslaved ...