a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with human cargo: captive Africans from Angola, in southwestern Africa. The men, women and ...

The last U.S. slave ship was burned to hide its horrors. A storm may have unearthed it. Redoshi was among the human cargo, Durkin said, and the story of her life provides important information on ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

Archaeologists and divers from across continents believe they have struck history gold, confirming the discovery of a sunken slave ship. The Sao Jose-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship ...

He helped identify the slave ships São José Paquete d’Africa ... a merchant ship from the 1700s that might have carried human cargo. This admiralty anchor, the manner of the ship’s ...

This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic ... Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low ...

Ballast from the first historically documented ship carrying enslaved Africans ... Those long thick bars were meant to offset the weight of its human cargo. “When you look at that and you ...

Archaeologists recently made a startling discovery: They found that two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Central America were actually two Danish slave ... of the ship’s cargo.

Until now, researchers believed the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade ... the owners of the ship burned it in 1860 to hide evidence of its illegal human cargo.