Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Kossula was just 19 years old when rival African warriors swept through his town in what is now Nigeria, killing and capturing him and others. The captives ...

Boasting his intention to dodge the U.S. Navy’s enforcement of the hated ban, Meaher partners with William Foster, a shipwright who captains his beautifully crafted schooner, the Clotilda. The pair ...

Naval warfare is rich with dramatic episodes. One such that deserves to be much better known is the campaign waged by England in the early 19th century against African slavery. Among the contestants ...

PART I. RECOVERING THE STORY. Cleared for Africa --- Shadows on the Wall --- Creating a Record --- How Did You Find Me? ---- PART II. THE HAUNTED LAND. Meeting the Slave Traders --- Another Century, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The small, sickly African girl who arrived in Boston on a seafaring vessel in 1761 had already been stripped of her family and her home. She missed her father, who suffered after having his young ...

Nat Geo Explorer Tara Roberts quit her job, learned to dive, and now helps discover the underwater wrecks of slave ships around the world with an incredible group of Black conservationists. National ...

On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...