Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar ...

The ballast was used to weigh down the slave ship and its human cargo. Iziko Museums “It’s a pretty intense site,” Gardullo says. “The divers talk about it as like being in a giant washing ...

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed ... for $9,000 in gold, the human cargo was worth more than 20 ...

Archaeologists and divers from across continents believe they have struck history gold, confirming the discovery of a sunken slave ship. The Sao Jose-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship ...

a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with human cargo: captive Africans from Angola, in southwestern Africa. The men, women and ...

He helped identify the slave ships São José Paquete d’Africa ... a merchant ship from the 1700s that might have carried human cargo. This admiralty anchor, the manner of the ship’s ...

who helmed an outlaw slave ship he christened “the Warrior,” or, in Spanish, the Guerrero. In 1827, he and his crew set sail for Cuba to cash in. Rather than buying human cargo, they stole ...

Decades after Congress outlawed the international slave trade ... The Clotilda's captain took his human cargo off the ship in Mobile and set fire to the vessel to hide evidence of the journey.

Decades after Congress outlawed the international slave trade ... The Clotilda’s captain took his human cargo off the ship in Mobile and set fire to the vessel to hide evidence of the journey.