Historians generally believe that the first set of enslaved Africans to land in the world that was new to Europeans were transported by a Portuguese ship, the Sao Joao Bautista in 1619. This ship, ...

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, ...

UPDATE Friday, March 13: this event has been postponed. Contact box office for further information. Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty ...

History Here’s the story behind the new Middle Passage marker at Long Wharf "The Marker tells the story of the trafficking of human beings and of the stolen labor on whose backs much of Boston was ...

When Charles R. Johnson wrote the novel “Middle Passage,” which won the National Book Award in 1990 for the Evanston-born writer, he immersed himself in the musings of nautical adventurers: Herman ...