Cassandra Lewis awaits approval from West African nation while reflecting on her great-great-grandfather Cudjo Lewis's ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Read More: Black woman called a ‘good little slave’ for wearing a mask The ship is one out of 500 that was despatched by the Royal African Company to West Africa between 1672 and 1713.

Slave ships arrived on the west coast of Africa, where it took an average of six months to gather the entire the human cargo of slaves. The middle passage, as the journey to the Americas was known ...

Last month marked the 176th anniversary of the slave-led mutiny aboard the schooner Amistad. That act of bravery on July 1, 1839, resulted in freedom for ...

The Brooks was an actual ship that schlepped enslaved Africans to Liverpool, England, and typified the slave vessels of the era: The Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788, which was designed to reduce ...

The last known US slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...

Positioning of slaves on a slave ship, 1786, illustration from Abolition of the slavetrade, 1808, London. Slavery, England, 18th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) ...

The Slave Ship The following script is from "The Slave Ship" which aired on November 1, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Nicole Young, producer.

Bunch figured that finding such a ship would be fairly simple—this was the Smithsonian, after all, and there had been many, many slave ships in operation—but that assumption didn’t take into ...

A Royal African Company ship that carried more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, was discovered buried underneath the sea by a ...

The Slave Ship The following script is from “The Slave Ship” which aired on November 1, 2015, and was rebroadcast on Aug. 21, 2016. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Nicole Young, producer.