Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

Tara Roberts - a diver, storyteller, and NatGeo Explorer - is working to bring these long-lost stories back to the surface.

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...

Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, at a slave port in what's now Benin. In 1860—52 years after the United States ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...

Slavery wasn’t limited to the American South. In the late 1730s, a young boy in Guinea was kidnapped and taken on a slave ship to New England. He grew up as an enslaved person but went on to buy his ...

Enjoy the beach at historic Virginia Key Beach Park PHOTO COURTESY OF MIAMIANDBEACHES.COM On Sunday, June 15, 2025, from 5:30 to 8:30 am, Miami’s decades-long ...

Thanks to the work of a team of young people from Limón, in partnership with the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and ...

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent ...

Following normal protocol, Smalls blew the ship’s whistle ... Robert Smalls, a former slave, sits outside the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, S.C. (Wikimedia Commons) “As she neared ...