The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in ... well-known in the trade and typical of this type of vessel. The Plymouth committee 's broadside utilised a cut-away diagram of the ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...

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 ...

They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...

Mutiny was an ever-present threat on Bristol's slave ships. It was even written into the articles of agreement between owners and seamen. On the Sally, drawn up in July 1785, the crew promised to ...

Jazz Slave Ships was a sitespecific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and Londonbased performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar It took ...

Slave ships were designed and equipped to resist takeover at sea; a strategically placed, well-armed crew could contain mutinies, but not prevent slaves leaping overboard or renewed attacks in which ...

And in Russia, archaeologists and historians are tracing the routes of Viking slave traders ... of wifeless young warriors, and a new type of ship—created a perfect storm.

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water as a memorial, a task force of historians and archaeologists has said. The Clotilda was rediscovered in 2019 in the Mobile river ...

This type of book has been around for centuries ... the book for you if you were the captain of an 18th century merchant ship. The 1764 publication offers information about the trade of tobacco ...

The people captured in the slave raids were held ... Stemm added that the wrecked ship was also equipped with a very rare ...

In 1860, a ship carrying 110 Africans illegally entered the U.S. in the middle of the night – more than five decades after international slave trade ... Note that each tour type has its own ...