In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

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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 ...

“We were [essentially] on the first slave ship to come to America.” Heartwarmingly enough ... and William became or were free and took the last name Tucker.” ...

One was the Society's emblem. The other was this plan of the Liverpool slave ship, the Brookes. Below the plan was a detailed description of the Brookes and information about the ship's trading ...

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 ...

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 ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...