This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts.

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 ...

The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...

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

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

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 ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...

Having first painstakingly studied primary ... “Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast” is by Dr Anne ...

The underwater monument, which lies close to the wreck of the slave ship Henrietta Marie off the coast of Florida, is ...

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 ...