BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship on the Alabama coast have made a surprising discovery. A recently released report shows that most of the wooden ...

In a remote river delta on Alabama's Gulf coast, partially hidden under water and mud, may be the answer to a mystery that has baffled scholars for more than 150 years. In a remote river delta on ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Researchers working in the murky waters of the northern Gulf Coast have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States, ...

The find, historians said, revives a story of unspeakable cruelty but also the story of a people who somehow survived this indignity and many others like it. Historians: The Last Known Slave Ship Has ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of ...