William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

click image for close-up Dejected, depressed, and despondent, captives aboard slave ships felt they had nothing to lose and so took any opportunity to revolt. According to Alexander Falconbridge ...

For the purpose of admitting this needful refreshment, most of the ships in the slave trade are provided, between the decks, with five or six air-ports on each side of the ship, of about five ...

2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope ...

Anne Ruderman’s discovery of documents from a slave ship has shed new light on the way the industry operated, revealing more about the economics of this very specific market and providing a greater ...

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water as a memorial, a task force of historians and ...

The last known survivor of the transatlantic slave ships, brought to the US in 1860, has been identified by an academic at Newcastle University. Sally Smith was kidnapped from West Africa by slave ...

In 2019 we began reporting on the discovery of the Clotilda - a sunken slave ship found in the bottom of an Alabama river. The Clotilda was the last ship known to have brought captured Africans to ...

The letter advised him that an unnamed slave from Richmond, Va. gained his freedom by shipping himself in a box to Mr. McKim in Philadelphia, as if he were an order of dry goods. The letter notes ...

Onimata Kan is famous for two things: a successful career writing S&M erotica, and hosting the erotic gatherings aboard what has come to be known as the Slave Ship, where the main attraction is ...

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Tara sets off on the journey of a lifetime, joining divers who are searching for the wrecks of ships that carried enslaved ... search for and help document slave trade shipwrecks around the ...