Last known intact U.S. slave ship is too ‘broken’ and should stay underwater, report recommends

That key historical evidence in the Clotilda's remains includes the lower hull where the enslaved Africans were held in captivity.

A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood

In 'heart-rending scenes,' white slavers 'would sell their own children,' William Davis recalled.

Maine’s seafaring history marred by long-ignored, disgraceful chapter

There’s new attention to Maine’s role in the slave trade of the 1800s, and on Friday a national expert will discuss how a Portland ship captain became one of the most notorious participants.

How did we lose a president's daughter?

To Ben Carson: Slaves were not immigrants

Black History lesson: Africans were free, then enslaved

U.K. police: 3 women held captive for 30 years

Leonard Pitts: Carson statement a cheap, rhetorical stunt

Maine gets mixed reviews in annual human trafficking report