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 ...

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The Portuguese slave ship had left Mozambique Island four weeks earlier and headed along the East African coast with its cargo of 500 captives, bound for the rice and cotton plantations of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, or some other product. The final leg brought the ship back to Europe.

DWP was invited by the U.S. Virgin Islands’ state historic preservation office to map the remains of Coral Bay Shipwreck No. 1, a merchant ship from the 1700s that might have carried human cargo.

The Clotilda's captain took his human cargo off the ship in Mobile and set fire to the vessel to hide evidence of the journey. The people, all from West Africa, were enslaved.