As we navigate the uncertain terrain of the next four years and beyond, many of us—like countless Americans ... aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the Americas ...

In 1860, Timothy Meaher with Captain William Foster illegally carried over a hundred enslaved Africans on the Clotilda then wrecked and abandoned the ship to conceal their trip. The slave trade ...

click image for close-up The importation of slaves had been prohibited in the United States since [1808], and ... travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...

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For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave ... the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us.

A group of New Yorkers have authored a petition in a last-ditch effort to prevent the famed Cold War carrier vessel the S.S. United States from becoming the world’s largest artificial reef. “On ...