MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, for a memorial ceremony.

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

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of ...

Clotilda, last known intact US slave ship, is too ‘broken’ and should stay underwater, a report recommends Clotilda's remains stayed unidentified in the brackish Mobile River until 2019 ...

Like other former slave-trading colonial powers, Portugal – the European country with the longest historical involvement in the slave trade—has struggled to confront its past.