Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the ...

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Feb. 19, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. This program tells the forgotten true story of an African prince who was enslaved in ...

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

As a result of the passage of this bill, not only was the slave trade to be brought to an end in 1807 but that a squadron of ships of the Royal Navy was to be set to patrol along the West African ...

In a late-night Executive Order on Friday, Trump accused South Africa’s government of “egregious actions” without providing ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Nonetheless, at least 2.8 million Africans were brought to the Americas ... But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence ...

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At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, “In Slavery’s Wake” tells the ... against the slavers to take control of the ship. They killed the captain and the cook ...

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