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Rare Slave Ship Timber Leaves the Smithsonian, Returns to South Africa

*A significant piece of history is coming down from one of Washington’s most visited museums. The National Museum of African ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

AP report: Slave ship artifact will soon leave the Smithsonian to return to its South African home

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from ...
Emanuel Valentin Toma on MSN

Blackbeard Captures the Ship That Became Queen Annes Revenge

In this short Today in History clip for 28 November, I talk about the real pirate behind the legend of Blackbeard. I explain ...
Sean Munger on MSN

The slave ship survivor who exposed the horror of the Atlantic slave trade

Olaudah Equiano’s life offers one of the most powerful firsthand accounts of the Atlantic slave trade ever written. This video follows his capture, the terror of the Middle Passage, his arrival in ...
wjla

Plaques trace Georgetown’s hidden Black history from slave ships to postwar community

WASHINGTON (7News) — Along the picturesque streets of Georgetown is a trail of plaques marking some of the hidden history of the neighborhood's past. Now known for its trendy shops and cafes, ...
insider.si.edu

The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...
The Conversation

Why shadow tankers are the only ships still moving through the Strait of Hormuz

Deputy Division Director of Wargame Design and Adjudication, US Naval War College The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israel ...
People

Beloved Lion Sisters, Part of a Subspecies Extinct in the Wild, Humanely Euthanized Together at 22

The lion sisters spent their lives side-by-side, helping support the conservation of Barbary lions Belfast Zoo On March 6, the Belfast Zoo announced it euthanized Barbary lion sisters, Thheiba and ...
Fox News

China dominates with 5,500 ships while America has under 100 — but Trump’s fighting back

China dominates the world’s sea lanes. In addition to its powerful navy, China possesses the world’s largest commercial shipping fleet — 5,500 vessels strong, with hundreds more added per year. By ...
Irish Sun

Belfast Zoo mourns deaths of world’s rarest lions as two ‘fondly remembered’ animals euthanised ‘to end suffering’

BELFAST Zoo bid a sad farewell to two of the world’s rarest lions today after the animals were euthanised “to end suffering”. The Barbary lionesses – Thheiba and Fidda – were 22 years old and were the ...
Daily Mail

Chef 'kept as a slave by drug dealer' was found dead after being beaten for weeks and made to sleep next to dogs, court hears

A former chef was found dead after being beaten 'over many weeks' and made to sleep in a garage next to dogs, a court heard. Dimitrious Tsavdaris, 55, was found lying in a foetal position on the ...
insider.si.edu

"House of slaves and 'door of no return'" : Gold Coast/Ghana slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade / Edmund Abaka

Introduction: Gold Coast slave forts and castles as frontiers of Euro-African economic and cultural encounter, c. 1482-1960 -- The long shadow of the enslaved: from Africa into the diaspora -- ...