The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its Slavery and Freedom ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and ...

Following the conclusion of a 10-year loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), wooden artifacts, including ship timber, from the São José slave ...

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 ...

A first-of-its-kind museum dedicated to the Clotilda - the last known slave ship - and its 110 survivors will officially open on Saturday, 163 years to the date that the vessel arrived into Mobile Bay ...

MOBILE, ALABAMA — “Step into my office,” Darron Patterson, 71, said with a wry smile as he swept an arm toward a metal bench. The “office” is the sunny front porch of a new, one-of-a-kind museum that ...

for the descendants of slaves in America. It can be difficult to trace one's family history, but now researchers who were investigating the last known slave ship to ever arrive in the US, the Clotilde ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. At first, this might look like any ...

A key artefact from the trans-Atlantic slave trade displayed at the National Museum of African American History and Culture ...