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

As we saw in last week’s article, in the early 1700’s, navies liked to duke it out in toe-to-toe action. These massive ship battles created horrific conditions for serving sailors, and rarely ...

You don’t see any parrots, peg legs, or eye patches in the main titles for Black Sails, the new Starz series from executive producer Michael Bay that depicts the lives of a brutal band of ...

where he was imprisoned in 1844 for attempting to sail seven fugitive slaves to ... better-known web of clandestine workers, both black and white, male and female, who facilitated the overland ...