Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship Clotilda in 1860, at a slave port in what's now Benin. In 1860—52 years after the United States had banned the import of slaves—a wealthy ...

This painting is titled The Slave Ship, or as it was originally called, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhoon Coming On by JW Turner. This title reveals the harrowing story of what we ...

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed ... to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants ...

The idea fortified me when I sat on the dive boat’s rail and prepared to fall overboard ... in Ireland than of slave ships.” Lubkemann conceived of the S.W.P. in 2003. Slavery wasn’t ...

According to historical records, the Isabelita was a slave ship ... The ship was too heavy to be hijacked at low tide, so Sziga said the crew started throwing items overboard to lighten the ...

and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On),” 1840, a canvas blistered with the trauma of enslaved people swallowed by the sea.

RICHMOND, Va. — City and state leaders unveiled plans on Monday for a life-size replica slave ship with amphitheater seating and a granite memorial wall at Ancarrow's Trailhead in Richmond.

Launched from a Baltimore shipyard in 1824, the ship was designed for the thriving Brazilian slave trade and thus for speed. For slavers, Mr. Taylor writes, “speed was the prime virtue in a ...

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken ... after the importation of slaves was made punishable by death in 1808. Captained by William Foster, the ship traveled to West Africa and illegally ...

Although America had long outlawed slave ships, stealthy slavers still managed to land ... ‘Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)’ and more mysteries The Book Club: A Read With ...

(WALA) - Ever since journalist and filmmaker Ben Raines found the long-lost Clotilda slave ... former slaves who founded the Africatown community are not sure what to do about the ship.