One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

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

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, 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 ...

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not ... hired by abolitionists to represent the 53 surviving rebels – Roger S.