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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Alabama Historical Commission has released potential preservation plans for the Clotilda, the last ...

The plan was already beginning to emerge on a ... Given how much is known about slave ships, it’s fair to ask if excavating them will fundamentally alter conceptions of the Middle Passage.

Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860 ...

Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire" illustrated how Africans travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...

Henry Box Brown shipped himself from a slave state to a free state in 1849 ... (Paul Semrad/ Undermain Theatre) Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the ...

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 ...