The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Cudjoe Lewis could scarcely move. He was traveling across the Atlantic on an 86-foot cargo sailing vessel named the Clotilda. The cargo hold where he sat was cramped. It was loaded with the usual ...

Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound from the West African coast to North America in late 1859. Her story began many decades before and thousands of miles ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is too “broken” to be pulled from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast and should stay underwater to preserve the “crime scene ...

Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

Though the meeting is informal, their mission is anything but: as descendants of the survivors of America’s last known slave ship, the men have resolved to form an association for the living ...

America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. The idea of beauty ...

It has many facets, including stories of our enslaved people and our community’s part in the slave trade. One story begins here in East Setauket, along Shore Road, overlooking Setauket Harbor. Joseph ...

Lord John Grey makes it to Havana in Besieged Section 3. As usual, Tom Byrd is well prepared. I love that we continue to see how prepared Tom Byrd is in this chapter. When he initially came on as ...