Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica that were previously believed to be pirate ships are ...

In 1710, two Danish slave ships got lost in some smog while sailing through the Caribbean and ultimately became shipwrecked ...

What were once believed to be pirate shipwrecks have now been definitively identified astwo Danish slave ships that sank in ...

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 ...

The $5.1 million facility, funded through RESTORE Act money from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, will serve as a first ...

In 1839, Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque, along with hundreds of others from the West African village of Mendeland, ...

An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

Denmark's National Museum said two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica were previously thought to have been pirate ships.

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 ...

“The analyses are very convincing and we no longer have any doubts that these are the wrecks of the two Danish slave ships,” said marine archaeologist David Gregory, a research professor and ...