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

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 ...

Slaves packed like cargo between decks often had to lie in each other's feces, urine, and blood. Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were ...

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 ...

IT COMMANDED THE AFRICAN SQUADRON FROM 1859 TO 1861, PATROLLING THE WEST AFRICAN COAST LOOKING FOR ILLEGAL SLAVE SHIPS. EVEN THOUGH SLAVERY WAS STILL LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THOSE YEARS ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear ... The voyage of the Etireno and its pitiful human cargo starkly demonstrates the failure ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too ... more about what they really experienced and how small that cargo hold was and how on top of each other they were, it ...

An illustration showing how enslaved Africans were stored in the cargo hold of slave ships for transportation across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. On the coast of Western Africa ...