click image for close-up Interior of a Slave Ship, a woodcut illustration from the publication, A History of the Amistad Captives, reveals how hundreds of slaves could be held within a slave ship.

It's set in a boat that is a replica of the original 1839 Amistad slave ship, which was home to one of the most notable slave rebellions in history. (Steven Spielberg made a whole film about it in ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...

intertwining the story of the Amistad slave revolt with the city of New Haven. The exhibit has been remodeled to boast a large collection and a new lively exhibition room. It centers around the people ...

Born a free man, he was enslaved, then set free. Once the captain of a slave ship, he later denounced the slave trade, becoming a great influence in its demise. After his mother's death when he ...

According to a visitor to Sierra Leone in 1848, "No-one can get a realising sense of the horrors of a slave ship from any oral or written description - it must be seen or felt". Steven Spielberg's ...

Denzel Washington has had many prolific roles over his long and illustrious film career. Still, the actor has also had many ...

Anne Ruderman’s discovery of documents from a slave ship has shed new light on the way the industry operated, revealing more about the economics of this very specific market and providing a greater ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published in an abolitionist broadside by William Elford and the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts has spent the past few years following a group of Black scuba divers, historians, and archaeologists as they search for and help document slave trade ...