A pirate shipwreck found off the coast of Madagascar could hold the key to a £100million treasure trove. A new study has been published by Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation researchers who ...

HAMPTON — The life of Dinah Small Burdoo, believed to be the last formerly enslaved person to live in Hampton, was honored on ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

The Sundance Institute has named the 11 producers chosen for its annual Producers Labs, returning to Ucross Foundation in ...

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

In a story published July 3, 2025 about an anti-slavery scroll, The Associated Press erroneously reported the document shed ...

The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in the 1760s.

French, Early 18th Century. Silk on Linen. Motifs from 17th Century Bestiaries and Herbals, include lions, rabbits, ducks, dragons, owls, etc; in various scales, in shades of yellows and browns, pinks ...

Fort Ligonier collections manager Meghan Budinger displays some 18th-century measuring tools that are among artifacts preserved in the fort museum’s new collections storage room.

Records indicate that the liquor was distilled in Barbados on one (just one) of the family’s 47 West Indian plantations, where there were thousands of slaves, including some who made rum.