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

Once a slave ship made it to the Caribbean, the cargo of enslaved people would be sold at auction. Enslaved people were prepared for sale so that they would reach as high a price as possible.

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

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 ...

Slave ships usually took between six and eleven ... The Zong's owners attempted to claim compensation for the loss of their cargo of enslaved people. When the insurers refused, the case went ...

Researchers believe they have found a long-lost American slave trafficking ... of a famous ship dropped anchor at the mouth of the Bracui River. He sent about 500 enslaved people ashore because ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ... people are very poor and need jobs. They believe life will be different for their children in Gabon. 'But these ...

Ships carried weapons and manufactured goods from Europe to the “slave coast” of West Africa on the first part of the round trip; in the Middle Passage, that cargo was traded for enslaved ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — It is estimated that 500 to 100,000 slave ships crashed at the height of the transatlantic trade, and with it, the lives of more than a million people were lost. Over the last ...

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