Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire" illustrated how Africans travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

An adjoining room on the same deck is appointed for the boys ... For the purpose of admitting this needful refreshment, most of the ships in the slave trade are provided, between the decks ...

Dozens of fourth graders were asked to imagine they were slaves Thursday as they packed themselves into a small gallery at the Carnegie Center for the Visual Arts in Decatur. Jessica Emrick, exhibit ...

Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks ... but they could be force fed as a result some refused to dance on deck or take part in enforced exercise - they were whipped as punishment ...

We are describing a journey of a Nantes slave ship since Nantes was ... contemporary record of how captives were confined below deck. Alongside it, shackles, ceramics, and personal testimonies ...