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Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...
The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...
The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...
It was hard not to be swept up in the furore that Bristol faced when its links to the transatlantic slave trade were laid ...
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to explore a shipwreck, pilot a remotely operated vehicle or touch artifacts that ...
The horrors of the transatlantic slave trade - and in particular Devon's links with the trade and its abolition in 1807 - are remembered in a major exhibition at Plymouth City Museum and Art ...
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.
Vera Carothers evaluates Margaret Brown’s documentary “Descendant,” which focusses on those who descended from enslaved passengers on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to enter the ...
Now, however, Dr Hannah Durkin, a lecturer in literature and film at Newcastle University, has revealed compelling evidence to suggest that Lewis was not quite the last slave. She thinks Redoshi ...
The lecture, entitled “Reckoning With The Slave Ship Enterprise in Bermuda, 1835” takes place at 5.30pm on April 28. Those interested in the Zoom Webinar event should click here to register.
The story of the Clotilda and its human cargo began with a boast, and then with a bet: In the spring of 1860, Alabama plantation owner and steamboat captain Timothy Meaher, bragged to dinner ...
The Clotilda took aboard 110 individuals in West Africa and set sail for Mobile, AL, in 1860, decades after the U.S. banned the transatlantic slave trade. On arrival,the ship illegally sold about ...