YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — From space, the fishing boats are just little white specks floating in a vast stretch of blue water off Papua New Guinea. But zoom in and there’s the critical evidence: Two ...
National Geographic explorer and Storytelling Fellow Tara Roberts documents Black scuba divers and archaeologists finding the lost wrecks of ships that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
The capture of a slave ship by the Royal Navy in 1859, from which 847 enslaved Africans were released. Illustrated London News Britain was once among the most enthusiastic of slave-trading nations.
One dark night in July 1860, fire danced over the waters of Mobile Bay as a schooner was set ablaze. She was the Clotilda and had just illegally smuggled 110 West Africans into the United States on ...
From slave market memorials to Freddie Mercury's birthplace, a Stone Town walking tour uncovers one of East Africa's most layered cities.
The trawlers fled a slave island in Indonesia with captives of a brutal Southeast Asian trafficking ring whose catch reaches the United States. Hundreds of men were freed after they were discovered ...
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — From space, the fishing boats are just little white specks floating in a vast stretch of blue water off Papua New Guinea. But zoom in and there’s the critical evidence: Two ...
From space, the fishing boats are just little white specks floating in a vast stretch of blue water off Papua New Guinea. But zoom in and there’s the critical evidence: Two trawlers loading ...
The trawlers fled a slave island in Indonesia with captives of a brutal Southeast Asian trafficking ring whose catch reaches the United States. Hundreds of men were freed after they were discovered ...