“The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country. The wreckage of the boat was discovered in Alabama’s Mobile River. Megan Thompson reports on the search for Clotilda,…
“Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic and housed at the Library of Congress, where it “annihilates” the conventional narrative of African…
From Newport, Rhode Island: “When people think of early African American history and the slave trade, they don’t think of New England or Newport,” says historian, Keith Stokes. “Before the American Revolution, Newport was the largest slave-trading port in British North America and about a third of the entire population of Newport were enslaved and…