SHOWS US THE WORK BEHIND A NEW ART INSTALLATION, YEARS IN THE MAKING, IN BOSTON. AT THE EAST END OF LONG WARF IN BOSTON, OVER LOOKING THE HARBOR AND OUT TO SEA, THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL ...

Who are we looking for, who are we looking for? It's Equiano we're looking for. Has he gone to the stream? Let him come back. Has he gone to the farm? Let him return. It's Equiano we're looking for. - ...

Noble in intent but off-putting in design, The Middle Passage (9:05 p.m. Saturday, HBO) awkwardly mixes poetry with horrific images to relate the plight of Africans captured, shackled and crammed into ...

Enslaved Africans’ history has been lost for centuries to development — buildings, landfills, parking lots, strip malls, business parks. In 1991, in New York’s Lower Manhattan, construction workers ...

A DEDICATION CEREMONY HELD FOR A BOSTON'S NEW MIDDLE PASSAGE PORT MARKER CONFRONTING THE CITY'S HISTORICAL CONNECTION TO SLAVERY. ERIKA: THE MARKER INSTALLED AT THE EAST END OF LONG WARF EXPLAINS HOW ...

A public marker to remember the enslaved Africans forced to journey across the ocean to toil in the Americas was formally dedicated Sunday on Boston’s downtown waterfront. The Middle Passage Port ...

Welcome to the Middle Passage Project of the College of William and Mary! The Middle Passage Project, founded 1995, serves to explore the history and memory surrounding the transatlantic slave trade, ...

Descendants of the Africans who survived the arduous journey across the Atlantic Ocean known as the Middle Passage joined others in paying honor to their ancestors Monday at Sotterley Plantation in ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story stated that the City of Tybee Island dedicated the official memorial rather than the Tybee Island Historical Society. On a sunny, blustery morning, ...

When Charles R. Johnson wrote the novel “Middle Passage,” which won the National Book Award in 1990 for the Evanston-born writer, he immersed himself in the musings of nautical adventurers: Herman ...

"Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the ...