Born a free man, he was enslaved, then set free. Once the captain of a slave ship, he later denounced the slave trade, becoming a great influence in its demise. After his mother's death when he ...

Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire" illustrated how Africans travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...

Researchers believe they have found a long-lost American slave trafficking ship, thanks to the help of a local fisherman. The ship, known as the Carmango, was discovered in waters between Rio de ...

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 ...

One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton, a former slave ship captain who became an abolitionist. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade tasked Thomas Clarkson ...