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.

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

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 ...

Mobile County leaders will hold a groundbreaking Wednesday for a new public park featuring amenities that include kayak and fishing access to Three Mile Creek. The ceremony for the future Lewis ...

The United States Treasury and State Departments on Monday announced sanctions targeting three ships and their owning companies for aiding Houthi terrorists in Yemen. According to the Treasury ...

As per the order of the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, the ships bearing the flag of Pakistan shall not be allowed to visit any Indian port. An Indian flag ship shall not visit any ...

“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and ...

The vessel was carrying 12 crew members and four civilians, the Maltese government said, adding that those aboard refused to leave the ship. The group was safe and no serious injuries were ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

(CNN) — 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 ...