Tara Roberts, who lives in Atlanta, has spent much of the past six years below the sea, exploring shipwrecks that date back to the transatlantic slave trade. Her new book, Written in the Waters: A ...

In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

After betting that he could smuggle a slave ship into the country and escape the consequences, wealthy Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher sailed to what was then the Kingdom of Dahomey ...