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 ...

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, ...

NEW YORK — During "The Middle Passage," the hugeness of nature is never in doubt as a clipper ship glides across the ocean's expanse. But apart from a brief roiling storm, the sea is calm. Nature is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, College of William and Mary Middle Passage Project In 1997, I participated in a pilgrimage to “sites of memory” in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal as part of a journey ...

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 ...

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, ...