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

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...

It was the first trading post in that region ... Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved ...

PATROLLING THE WEST AFRICAN COAST LOOKING FOR ILLEGAL SLAVE SHIPS. EVEN THOUGH SLAVERY WAS STILL LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THOSE YEARS, IMPORTING SLAVES FROM AFRICA WAS NOT. IF THE PROFIT ...

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...