Divers recently identified two Danish slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, during an excavation near ...

The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead ... Faced with the nightmarish conditions of the voyage and the unknown future that lay beyond, many Africans preferred to die.

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been ...

About six or seven months after being abducted, Equiano was brought to the coast, where he first encountered a slave ship and white ... describes the inconceivable conditions of the slaves ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

The 1788 Slave Trade Act was introduced to try to improve conditions onboard slave ships by limiting the number of enslaved people on board. An illustration showing how enslaved Africans were ...