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, ...

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 ...

According to a statement released by the National Museum of Denmark, however, a new investigation revealed them to be the remains of two former Danish slave ships that dramatically sank more than ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire ...