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 ...

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

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic ... Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

Slavery lasted for approximately 246 years from 1619 to 1865. In addition to that, there were 12 years of Reconstruction and 91 years of Jim Crowism (legalized discrimination). It is estimated that ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies ... The voyage of the Etireno and its pitiful human cargo starkly demonstrates the failure of ...

An illustration showing how enslaved Africans were stored in the cargo hold of slave ships for transportation across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas. On the coast of Western Africa ...