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In 1863, Smalls became captain of the Planter, the first Black man to command a United States vessel. He held this position ...
What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the ...
a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...
When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis.
In January or February of 1717, a group of pirates led by Sam Bellamy captured a slave ship called the Whydah Gally in the Bahamas. The ship had already completed a trip bringing slaves to North ...
Chapter 17 - Temple of Lomarith in Doom: The Dark Ages includes a reality-bending puzzle where you must escape a ship that changes nearly every time you move. Completing the puzzle rewards in a ...
The new location overlooks the area where slave ships entered Newport. The Middle Passage Port Marker Project will now begin fundraising and planning the memorial's design. NEWPORT – With ...