The dots—which represent individual slave ships—also correspond to the size of each voyage. The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot ...

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...

This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred ... “It’s one thing to have plans,” Bernier said of such skepticism. “But a ship is a living thing.” Most slavers were ...

It is a historically rich site that physically connects centuries of the transatlantic slave trade to the people ... ago confirmed the identity of the ship that lies submerged in the Mobile ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ships off the coast of Central America. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus ...

“The ship was the vessel, but it was never a huge part of our story.” For historians, the Clotilda holds a shameful distinction. It is the last known slave ship to reach the United State ...

City leaders, in partnership with The Shockoe Project, have announced the construction of a life-size replica of the slave ship, “The Brooks,” a significant part of the city’s history as a ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus ...