lovely huts, my children's voices" LENOX -- Fifty-three people of the Mendi, from Sierra Leone, captured a slave ship. Each kidnapped from a rice field or a house where he slept beside his wife, they ...

A reception will be held on March 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Claudia Crosby Theatre lobby followed by a roundtable discussion at 6 p.m. with Ben Raines, journalist and author of “The Last Slave Ship ...

In 2019 we began reporting on the discovery of the Clotilda - a sunken slave ship found in the bottom of an Alabama river. The Clotilda was the last ship known to have brought captured Africans to ...

He’s from Africatown, a freed Black settlement on the Gulf Coast, founded by people who were brought over on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach the United States. Flen, who is ...

The story of Uncle Tom and our family begins with Jermame, the young girl who crossed the Middle Passage of the Atlantic Ocean in chains as a slave on a slave boat after being captured in Africa.