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 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 ...

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

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.

Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say . Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 10:00 a.m. ... the last slave ship to bring human cargo to the United States.

Sometime in 1619, 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...