The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

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 ...

The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what ... Their "living quarters" was often a deck within the ship that had less than five feet of headroom -- and throughout a large portion of ...

Researchers believe they have found a long-lost American slave trafficking ship, thanks to the help of a local fisherman. The ship, known as the Carmango, was discovered in waters between Rio de ...

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 ...