It has many facets, including stories of our enslaved people and our community’s part in the slave trade. One story begins here in East Setauket, along Shore Road, overlooking Setauket Harbor. Joseph ...

It has many facets, including stories of our enslaved people and our community’s part in the slave trade. One story begins here in East Setauket, along Shore Road, overlooking Setauket Harbor. Joseph ...

Make sure to take a stroll along the Wanderer Memory Trail, which tells the story of one of America’s last known slave ships. When portions of the 1989 Civil War drama Glory were filmed here ...

Make sure to take a stroll along the Wanderer Memory Trail, which tells the story of one of America’s last known slave ships. When portions of the 1989 Civil War drama Glory were filmed here, this ...

Forty years earlier, his clipper ship Wanderer was caught in a gale off of Vera Cruz ... The skipper’s deliverance was the beginning of a more spiritual way of life for a former slave trader, an echo ...

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

IT COMMANDED THE AFRICAN SQUADRON FROM 1859 TO 1861, PATROLLING THE WEST AFRICAN COAST LOOKING FOR ILLEGAL SLAVE SHIPS. EVEN THOUGH SLAVERY WAS STILL LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THOSE YEARS ...

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. National Geographic explorer and writer Tara Roberts has been ...

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

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 ...