As we observe the nation’s 250th anniversary this year, we must do more than listen to the reading of the Declaration of ...
Jamestown Settlement and Jamestown Rediscovery will host events on Saturday to honor the first Africans who were enslaved and ...
An invaluable new book tells the story of two ships that were once central to the nation’s debates. “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” — attributed to ...
On 4 August 1626 three ships dropped anchor in the road off the leeward coast of St Christopher (St Kitts) in the Caribbean. A hundred English settlers rowed ashore, come to make their fortunes in ...
The Africans on the intercepted ships carrying enslaved people were taken to the remote island of St. Helena where thousands ...
The British Royal Navy spent the better part of the 19th century patrolling the Atlantic, intercepting ships full of captured Africans. Great Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1807, but there ...
Saint Helena is a tiny volcanic island more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa. Between 1840 and 1863, the British Royal Navy brought nearly 27,000 Africans from captured illegal slave ships to ...
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter shadowed a Chinese ship bound for the Arctic this week — the first time this year that Chinese vessels have appeared in areas the U.S. has designated as within its extended ...
Large companies with annual revenue over A$100 million could soon pay fines and face criminal charges for failing to prevent modern slavery, under a new federal government crackdown. These reforms ...
The Saudi authorities confirmed a strike on one of the ships. These are the first claimed attacks since the Iranian-backed Yemeni group announced a blockade on Saudi Arabia. By Pranav Baskar The ...
An aerial view of the Parade of Sail as tall ships entered Boston Harbor on Saturday, marking the start of Sail Boston 2026. (Video: Alex Pickering for The Boston Globe, Edited by Anush Elbakyan/Globe ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday replaced an exhibit on slavery at the site of President George Washington's home in Philadelphia with a version that historians say ...
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