The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a ...

following Britain's 1807 abolition of the African slave trade, the Royal Navy's Preventative Squadron attempted to stop the traffic of stupendously profitable human cargoes to the New World. While ...

Sailing off the south coast ... allowing their crew to map, monitor and potentially sever the undersea cables that transmit data around the world. “Let me be clear, this is a spy ship,” said John ...

The group said U.K. and U.S.-linked ships would be allowed to pass from Jan. 19. Vessels wholly owned by Israeli citizens or companies, or sailing under ... take the longer route around Africa ...

a sign that traffic on one of the world’s main trade routes could normalize after more than a year of disruption. Six ships linked to the US and UK have successfully transited the area without ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...

Big shipping companies say they won’t send vessels back to the Red Sea despite a pledge by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen not to attack them as long as a cease-fire in Gaza holds.

Western nations have often tracked the ship operating in European waters and they suspect part of its mission has been to map undersea cables. They also believe Russia has been stepping up this ...

The independent satellite imagery analyst MT Anderson on Wednesday likewise reported both ships seemed en route to the port ... in the Mediterranean and two Russian naval assault ships sailing in ...

Intellectuals and activists have long demanded reparations for the horrors of slavery and other colonial abuses: crimes against humanity that continue to cast a long shadow but for which compensation ...

While Houthis too have announced a ceasefire on attacks on non-Israeli ships, there is also the reality that carriers ... brochure that displayed the existing Suez passage on its mapped route." It is ...