For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Slave ships arrived on the west coast of Africa, where it took an average of six months to gather the entire the human cargo of slaves. The middle passage, as the journey to the Americas was known ...

Slave ships arrived on the west coast of Africa, where it took an average of six months to gather the entire the human cargo of slaves. The middle passage, as the journey to the Americas was known ...

In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say . Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 10:00 a.m. ... the last slave ship to bring human cargo to the United States.

The possible discovery of the Clotilda - the last slave ship to bring human cargo to the U.S. - has set off a wave of interest among archeologists and history buffs.

In 1794, the Portuguese slave ship São José wrecked with 400 slaves aboard; ... The ballast was used to weigh down the slave ship and its human cargo. Iziko Museums “It’s a ...

During a 1781 voyage from West Africa to Jamaica, Capt. Luke Collingwood, commanding a ship named the Zong, faced a conundrum. After 2½ months at sea, epidemic dysentery had already killed ...

Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on the banks of the river, where the ship remains ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also ...