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

By slave ship standards, not many had died en route -- about 90 of the original 600. But the ship was not filled to capacity -- it could hold 1,000 slaves -- and the Africans were well-fed.

The other was this plan of the Liverpool slave ship, the Brookes ... and children tightly packed into the Brooke's hold. The accompanying description stated that, according to records, as many ...

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 ...

According to historical records, the Isabelita was a slave ship operating in the Western Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea waters. There is a Spanish Well near the Anclote Key boat ramp that ...

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