In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ... We count the number of bodies thrown overboard from a slave ship; the ...

Captured slave ships were typically auctioned off at fire ... Mr. Bordewich’s most recent book is “Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.” ...

Despite the vast literature on the transatlantic slave trade, the role of sailors aboard slave ships has remained unexplored. This book fills that gap by examining every aspect of their working lives, ...

he did not know what was done with the ship's papers; Capt. Gordon did not say they were destroyed; witness kept the log-book on the outward passage; thirty-six pipes of rum were discharged in the ...

Thus begins Alexander Falconbridge's book, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa. Employed as a surgeon aboard various slave ships, Falconbridge had first-hand knowledge of many ...

his horrendous voyage on a slave ship, his bondage in the Americas, his conversion to Christianity, the purchase of his freedom, his experiences on a British man of war, his employment on a ...

The Brazilian slave-ship Henriqueta had no cause for alarm when ... bringing to life the human tragedy of slavery in a way ...

Because my grandfather was on that ship, I feel a special obligation to vote and encourage others to do so, too.

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 ...

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...