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 ...

National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts spoke with "GMA" about her journey. A trip to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture launched journalist Tara Roberts on a ...

In world history, no topic is as culturally shameful, fraught, and continuously painful as slavery. Whether it's the extent of slavery among the world's oldest civilizations or the horrors of slavery ...

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 ...