“We were [essentially] on the first slave ship to come to America.” Heartwarmingly enough, despite starting off with trials and tribulations, their story may even have somewhat of a happy ending.

Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860 ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on ... protecting slaves freed from captured slave ships. Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in the slave trade continued, reaching ...

In 2019, 400 years after the first slave ship arrived in the English colony of Virginia, the New York Times featured a series of articles on the ways in which the legacy of slavery has shaped American ...

My first memory of the Atlantic slave trade is ... were forgotten and all beginnings recast.” The archeology of slave ships has such appeal because it promises to fill this void.

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...

Paluska first profiled Zsiga for a report on the ... According to historical records, the Isabelita was a slave ship operating in the Western Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea waters.

The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on ... protecting slaves freed from captured slave ships. Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in the slave trade continued, reaching ...