This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred ... a stainless-steel knife to her muscular calf. A thirty-two-year-old with cowrie shells in her long box braids and a pierced septum ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

Kwa chant about the disappearance of an African boy, Equiano This African chant mourns the loss of Olaudah Equiano, an 11-year-old boy and ... On the slave ships, people were stuffed between ...

A description of conditions on board the slave ships and an outline of the Zong case of 29 November 1781. Poor weather conditions and inept navigation resulted in a journey that took months rather ...

One of the main speakers at abolitionist meetings was John Newton, a former slave ship captain who became an abolitionist. The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade tasked Thomas Clarkson ...

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