This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. To preserve their profits, captains and sailors tried to limit the deaths of slaves from disease, suicide, and recolts.

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...

It was the first trading post in that region ... Africans died in captivity or on board European slave ships en route to the New World. West African societies change due to the trade in enslaved ...

Henry Box Brown shipped himself from a slave state to a free state in 1849 ... (Paul Semrad/ Undermain Theatre) Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the ...

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the "middle" leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery ...