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

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New World slave ... ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery), loaded their then-empty holds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clotilda’s cargo hold was a hellish dungeon for 108 ... A drawing of a similar ship, the Liverpool slave ship Brooks [Getty Images] Foster was ultimately prosecuted in 1861 for illegal slave ...

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