Mickey Love, Executive Director, Historic London Town and Garden, welcomes guests. Historic London Town and Gardens hosted its Middle Passage Port Marker Ceremony in remembrance of ancestors, ...

There are school field trips. And then there are school field trips! The one on Tybee on Oct. 18 in front of the lighthouse was one for the record books. One that the 110 or so students from Tybee ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Saturday, a special ceremony was held in Biloxi to honor the first arrival of enslaved Africans who arrived on the Gulf Coast and died along the Middle Passage. Local leaders ...

For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from Africa ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story stated that the City of Tybee Island dedicated the official memorial rather than the Tybee Island Historical Society. On a sunny, blustery morning, ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Deep, murky waters of the Mississippi Sound hold 350 years of history in each current. The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Marker Project honors the millions of Africans who ...

ST. MICHAELS — People gathered at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Aug. 24 for a moving ceremony honoring the millions of captive Africans who perished during the transatlantic crossing known as the ...

The city of New London honored enslaved Africans who traveled on schooner Speedwell in 1761 with UNESCO Slave Route Project Site of Memory as part of it’s Slave Route Project Sunday, July 17, 2022.

Noble in intent but off-putting in design, The Middle Passage (9:05 p.m. Saturday, HBO) awkwardly mixes poetry with horrific images to relate the plight of Africans captured, shackled and crammed into ...

MIDDLETOWN — It was a “life-changing experience” for Middletown Public Schools Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Jada Waters when she took a field trip to the home port of the schooner ...

Welcome to the Middle Passage Project of the College of William and Mary! The Middle Passage Project, founded 1995, serves to explore the history and memory surrounding the transatlantic slave trade, ...