On Jan. 14, the Kimbell Art Museum will premiere an online lecture by two world experts on the 19th century, exploring one of the most important paintings of the Romantic period. At first glance, ...

One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread ...

Underwater archaeologists at the site of the São José slave ship wreck near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (courtesy Iziko Museums, all images via Smithsonian Institution) Long-lost between two reefs ...

J.M.W. Turner, “The Slave Ship” (1840, via Wikimedia) LONDON — In 2007, a replica 18th-century ship called the “Zong” sailed up the river Thames to mark the 200th anniversary of Britain’s abolition of ...

Raines is the author of The Last Slave Ship, The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, which came out on Jan. 25 The wreck of the Clotilda, the last ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...