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Marine archaeologists uncover two 18th-century Danish slave ships in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica. Learn about the 1710 ...
The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but ...
The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...
Danish ships involved in transatlantic slave trade uncovered off Costa Rica - Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus sank ...
While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...
In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...
The initiative, called SlaveVoyages, is currently housed at Rice University and contains records of nearly 221,000 people involved in the slave trade. After undergoing a multi-year transition ...
In recent days, Donald Trump has signaled eagerness to reach a trade agreement with China. The president said Tuesday that his 145 percent tariffs on Chinese imports will “come down ...
China’s leadership has vowed to stabilise the economy and society, as the country is now at a critical stage in handling the unprecedented trade war with the United States. In an economic ...
Donald Trump has made the outrageous claim that he’s struck a whopping 200 trade deals with foreign leaders during his 90-day pause on his “reciprocal tariff” policy. But when pressed ...