The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

Archaeologist David John Gregory recently spoke with Fox News Digital about the haunting discovery of Danish two slave ships, ...

In 1710, two Danish slave ships got lost in some smog while sailing through the Caribbean and ultimately became shipwrecked ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

What were once believed to be pirate shipwrecks have now been definitively identified astwo Danish slave ships that sank in ...

In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off ...

The findings of an alleged slave ship off the coast of Costa Rica. (photo credit: National Museum of Denmark) Marine archaeologists have confirmed that two shipwrecks off Costa Rica’s southern ...

The ships were found in the early 1800s, but scientists have only recently pieced together their history. Researchers have ...

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 ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus ...