The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is ... Slavery was still legal at the time, but importing enslaved ...

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 ...

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 ...

One was the Society's emblem. The other was this plan of the Liverpool slave ship, the Brookes. Below the plan was a detailed description of the Brookes and information about the ship's trading ...

click image for close-up The importation of slaves had been prohibited in the United States since [1808], and yet, the trade continued illegally on a smaller scale for many years -- even up to the ...

In response, Eisenhower launched America’s largest mass deportation in 1954, named with a racist slur: “ Operation Wetback .” ...

It has many facets, including stories of our enslaved people and our community’s part in the slave trade. One story begins ...

The slave ship Brooks was first drawn and published ... year and would be redrawn and republished many times in Britain and America in the years that followed. It came to epitomize the cruelties ...

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 ...