Cudjoe Lewis could scarcely move. He was traveling across the Atlantic on an 86-foot cargo sailing vessel named the Clotilda. The cargo hold where he sat was cramped. It was loaded with the usual ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story began many decades before and thousands of miles ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS ...

America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. The idea of beauty ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

Though the meeting is informal, their mission is anything but: as descendants of the survivors of America’s last known slave ship, the men have resolved to form an association for the living ...