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

They came so late in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, years after the maritime ... actual survivors of the last known ship to make the Middle Passage, were alive and well and perhaps ...

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 ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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 ...

Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A further act in 1820 ensured participation in the slave-trade came under piracy laws, which was punishable by death. A more determined enforcement effort followed. Ships such as the USS Shark ...

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 ...

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 ...