On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was often unbearable, and the air nearly unbreathable. Women were often used sexually.

For the purpose of admitting this needful refreshment, most of the ships in the slave trade are provided, between the decks, with five or six air-ports on each side of the ship, of about five ...

On Dec. 5, 1801, a Spanish slave ship left Charleston, S.C., for Mozambique, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. It gathered 200 slaves, but by the time it reached Montevideo ...

The Slave Ship 13:17. The following script is from "The Slave Ship" which aired on November 1, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Nicole Young, producer.

On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was often unbearable, and the air nearly unbreathable. Slaves were often chained in pairs, shackled wrist ...

Slave ships ranged in size from small fishing schooners to three-mast, square-rigged ships. ... about four feet high between decks, there, of course, can be but little ventilation ...

"While the crew here are working the rigging in order to be able to chase down the ship, the crews below deck working the guns are going to be preparing to force the Cora to stop," Auer told 11 News.

A print of the slave ship Brooks, showing slaves packed sardinelike below deck in the ship, which was published in England and America, was particularly effective in the campaign against slavery ...

On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was often unbearable, and the air nearly unbreathable. Slaves were often chained in pairs, shackled ...

Archaeologist David John Gregory recently spoke with Fox News Digital about the haunting discovery of Danish two slave ships, Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, in Costa Rica.

A Spanish slave ship bound for Cuba, it was veering south toward Havana when an English antislavery schooner, the Nimble, spotted its sail on December 17, 1827. The two ships were locked in a ...

Amistad By David Pesci Marlowe & Co., 292 pages, $22.95 It is easy to see why Steven Spielberg chose to film the story of the Africans who rebelled aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad in 1839.