"It commanded the African squadron from 1859 to 1861, patrolling the West African coast and looking for illegal slave ships.Even though slavery was still legal in the United States during those ...

It was May 13, 1862, and Smalls did not hesitate, springing into action to execute his plan to seize the CSS Planter, a Confederate military cargo transport ship ... a former slave, sits outside ...

They failed and Clarkson survived. Clarkson gathered a diagram of the slave ship Brookes, showing the cramped conditions in which 450 enslaved people were stowed below decks. In 1787 Thomas ...

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

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) will now be the user of a 55-meter vessel earlier operated by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), enhancing its ... he said. The ship, he added, ...

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not, their existence was reflected in numbers on ledgers and spreadsheets. Their birth names ...

Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy Correction Facility on Dec. 9.

and strongly reminded me of the famous image of the British slave ship Brooks, packing slaves in rows to transfer as many as possible to the plantations. Others tell the difficulties of life in ...

Corrections officers in a Utica-area prison beat Robert Brooks until he was "nothing less than graveyard dead," a group of Rochester faith leaders said Monday. Their actions, clergy members said, were ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said the autopsy results in the death of Robert Brooks, who was beaten by prison guards, should prompt the swift filing of criminal charges. By Ed Shanahan An autopsy ...

The family of Robert Brooks has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against those involved in his death, calling it “…torture and murder.” Elizabeth Mazur, a partner at Hughes, Socol ...

More than any of the other classic mall brands—think J. Crew and Abercrombie—Brooks Brothers had a difficult proposition for remaining relevant. When you've dressed 41 of the (now) 47 U.S ...