The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the ...
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...
The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...
Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...
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Though the meeting is informal, their mission is anything but: as descendants of the survivors of America’s last known slave ship, the men have resolved to form an association for the living ...
America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. The idea of beauty ...
According to historical records, the Isabelita was a slave ship operating in the Western Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea waters. There is a Spanish Well near the Anclote Key boat ramp that ...
One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton, a former slave ship captain who became an abolitionist. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade tasked Thomas Clarkson ...