Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...

The Clotilda, the last known U.S. slave ship, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860 with 110 enslaved people. Travel journalist Natalie Preddie visits and reports on the opening of "Clotilda: The ...

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and ...

The Henrietta Marie was an English slave ship that mysteriously sank off the coast of Key West in 1700. It was returning from a trip to Jamaica where 191 slaves were sold. Nearly 300 years later, a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Ever since journalist and filmmaker Ben Raines found the long-lost Clotilda slave ship, he has been on a one-man crusade to raise the wreckage and display it in a world-class ...

Alabama funded a $1 million investigation to see if the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the US, can be excavated from the Mobile River. The ship’s captain, Willam Foster, traveled to West ...

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