The National Museum of African American History and Culture will modify its slavery exhibit as a loan agreement ends, returning a timber piece from the slave ship São José-Paquete de Africa to South ...
Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...
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The slave trader who became Britain’s greatest humanitarian
Few lives in British history stretch as far morally as John Newton’s. Born in London in 1725, he grew up to captain slave ships across the Atlantic, transporting human beings in conditions so brutal ...
It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she ...
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic ...
On the way down I saw nothing. The water was a blur of teal fringed with rusty shadows, darkening, about twenty feet below, to a sickly emerald. I followed a rope strung between a buoy and a stake in ...
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