Protecting undersea cultural heritage in spotlight at mining code talks The world's oceans harbor a cultural heritage of sunken ships, remains of those lost in the transatlantic slave trade and ...

Drimachus led a slave revolt on Chios, ruling a rogue stronghold before betrayal. Organized resistance like that of Spartacus ...

Tara Roberts, who lives in Atlanta, has spent much of the past six years below the sea, exploring shipwrecks that date back to the transatlantic slave trade. Her new book, Written in the Waters: A ...

To fend off attacks from the sea, cannons were needed, whereas light gunfire was usually enough to deter an assault from the interior. Slaves were typically captured inland, then brought to the ...

Whereas some doubts have arisen whether children that are slaves by birth. . . should by ... shall be imported into this country either by sea or by land, whether Negroes, Moors [Muslim North ...

On the basis of interrogation, the police said that they were treated like slaves. Due to this ... Their journey was risky, thousands of kilometers of sea travel on a small boat.

She's the author of That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 and "Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain Embargoes and the Early Transmission of the Black ...

The South Sea Company was a financial and trading organisation ... Shares were issued and unrealistic expectations cultivated. A monopoly of the slave trade was envisaged. When it was discovered ...