One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is ... Slavery was still legal at the time, but importing enslaved persons into America had been outlawed since 1808.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE ... THE SHIP THAT SITS SO PROMINENTLY IN THE INNER HARBOR The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last ...

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 ...

A: The first people who come to Jamestown from Africa in a sense come as slaves. We're not sure whether they had been captured off a slave ship in the Caribbean or whether they'd been transported ...

The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America ... the slaves and purchased raw materials to be brought back to Europe on the last ...

Rated: R Starring: Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Directed by Steven Spielberg After the slave ship Amistad ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published ... year and would be redrawn and republished many times in Britain and America in the years that followed. It came to epitomize the cruelties ...