Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire" illustrated how Africans travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...

The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what ... Their "living quarters" was often a deck within the ship that had less than five feet of headroom -- and throughout a large portion of ...

Researchers believe they have found a long-lost American slave trafficking ship, thanks to the help of a local fisherman. The ship, known as the Carmango, was discovered in waters between Rio de ...

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water as a memorial, a task force of historians and archaeologists has said. The Clotilda was rediscovered in 2019 in the Mobile river ...

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed.

The last ship known to have smuggled slaves from Africa ... The US banned the importation of slaves in 1808, but the slave trade carried on beyond this date as there was still demand for workers ...

Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks ... but they could be force fed as a result some refused to dance on deck or take part in enforced exercise - they were whipped as punishment ...