A National Museum of African American History and Culture Exhibition frames the history of slavery in a global context ...

MOBILE, Ala. ( WALA) - A new park is coming to Mobile County. Called Lewis Landing Park, it will give people a new access point to Three Mile Creek for kayaking and fishing. On Wednesday, a ...

a community founded by survivors of the slave ship Clotilda. The park will be near Lewis Quarters, a settlement established as part of the larger Africatown community. If you purchase a product or ...

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

Archaeologists in Australia have discovered a 19th century Dutch merchant shipwreck that went down off the country's coast ...

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 confident they have found the wreckage of an 800-ton Dutch merchant ship that sunk off the coast of Australia 168 years ago. The Koning Willem de Tweede was lost near Robe ...