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

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

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 ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Though the meeting is informal, their mission is anything but: as descendants of the survivors of America’s last known slave ship, the men have resolved to form an association for the living ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. The idea of beauty ...

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 ...