At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ship', aid agencies fear. They say scores may already have died in atrocious conditions aboard the small, rusting ...
Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic Ocean in 1729, yet he became a writer, a composer, a shopkeeper and a respected man of letters in 18th-century London – the first man ...
They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly anchor in Anse Cafard and careened into Martinique's Diamond Rock Mountain, killing many of the passengers and sailors as ...
While surveying the long-forgotten ship, a team of archaeologists unearthed objects — as well as insights into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. WLRN’s Julia Cooper reports from Key West. Tell us about ...