The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead ... The slaves were branded with hot irons and restrained with shackles. Their "living quarters" was often a deck within the ship ...

The shackles were used in what was called the "Middle Passage", the second section of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade generally followed a three-part triangular route, with ships ...

The wreck of the last known US slave ship should remain under water as a memorial, a task force of historians and archaeologists has said. The Clotilda was rediscovered in 2019 in the Mobile river ...

The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead ... The slaves were branded with hot irons and restrained with shackles. Their "living quarters" was often a deck within the ship ...