The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look ...

Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856.