Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

The last ship known to have smuggled slaves from Africa to the US is said ... The ship was used to smuggle men, women and children into America from Africa. It operated in secret, decades after ...

The last known slave ship to travel to the United States is ... Slavery was still legal at the time, but importing enslaved ...

That publicity helped spark a renewed search last year that found another wreck now identified as the slave ship. Officials didn't say how much of the ship remains or what might become of its remnants ...

America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. America’s last slave ship stole them from home. It couldn’t steal their identities. The idea of beauty ...

Though the meeting is informal, their mission is anything but: as descendants of the survivors of America’s last known slave ship, the men have resolved to form an association for the living ...

At least 300 children are facing an agonising death on an overcrowded 'slave ... The ship was carrying at least 300 children when it left Benin, but witnesses who saw it off Gabon late last ...

Amy Albers to discuss America's last slave ships during the Evening With History lecture at the Marietta History Center.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has travelled to Ghana in West Africa for events marking 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. In 1619 ...

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 ...

The "many" he refers to are the Africans taken as free people and then forced into slavery in South America ... the slaves and purchased raw materials to be brought back to Europe on the last ...