(See also: Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama.) A 1790 engraving showing the cramped, inhuman stowage arrangements on the British slave ship Brookes. Photograph by Album While ...

Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. 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 ...