Slave ships made large profits by carrying as many enslaved people as possible across the Atlantic to sell at auction. There were two methods of loading the ship: An illustration showing how ...

click image for close-up Dejected, depressed, and despondent, captives aboard slave ships felt they had nothing to lose and so took any opportunity to revolt. According to Alexander Falconbridge ...

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 ...

"Along comes a slave ship, a trading vessel named the Isabelita ... so Sziga said the crew started throwing items overboard to lighten the load. That cargo was human beings, with a total of ...

Onimata Kan is famous for two things: a successful career writing S&M erotica, and hosting the erotic gatherings aboard what has come to be known as the Slave Ship, where the main attraction is ...

The letter advised him that an unnamed slave from Richmond, Va. gained his freedom by shipping himself in a box to Mr. McKim in Philadelphia, as if he were an order of dry goods. The letter notes ...

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

Tara Roberts, Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic, came to Western Illinois University in Macomb to talk about her ...

This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred souls across the Atlantic before it burned. It was the sixth of November, and I was diving with a group of maritime archeologists in ...

More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island. Bishop Silouan Silala Vea's ancestors were invited aboard for a meal in a gesture the villagers thought was "great hospitality ...

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