Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English ... filling at least 36 ships with human cargo. These captives would be sent to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Central and South ...

Spears's “American Slave ... the cargo was accumulating, (three to ten months,) and while crossing the Atlantic, (six to ten weeks,) was usually a room as long and as wide as the ship, but ...

Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860 ... scraping together details about the ship and its cargo. He keeps a 1931 article from the Mobile Register about Cudjo ...

New research has indicated that two ships found in Costa Rica, once thought by archaeologists to be pirate ships, were ...

Archaeologists are shedding light on the astonishing identification of two 18th-century slave ... the ship "specifically to obtain samples of the ship's timber." He added, "No human remains ...

Researchers analysed timber and bricks taken from the shipwrecks during an underwater excavation off Costa Rica in 2023, and assessed samples, including clay pipes, from their cargo. The analysis ...

The French bike manufacturer showcased the human-powered Cyclauto cargo trike at the recent Spezi bike show in Germany, but no details regarding its pricing or availability are available at the ...

from their cargo. The analysis revealed that the ships were most likely slave trade vessels Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, two of the “most dramatic shipwrecks” in the history of ...

Books & the Arts / A capacious new history examines the remaking of the the global economy through the story a single barge.

List of Navy vessels to possibly be renamed includes Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman - both who have ties to historic ...