This is the grave of James DeWolf. Born in 1764 in Bristol, Rhode Island, DeWolf grew up in the shipping world of that city, which was one of the biggest shipping hubs in the colonies, despite its small size today. This was a big port...
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This is the grave of John Armfield. One of the most disgusting human beings to ever live in this country, Armfield was born in 1797 in North Carolina, His parents.
For our latest podcast, we talked to Joshua Rothman, historian at the University of Alabama, about his recent book The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America..
As part of the mental project by Americans to assume that most of us, especially those who were in the north, didn't really approve of the slave trade, we've painted in our memories the slave trade as especially bad (true) and that those who were...
The last ship participating in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to enter American waters has been found and the whole thing is highly fascinating. Last week, all such doubts evaporated. A.
The daily horrors of the slave trade are just too much for us to quite comprehend. Here is a new discovery: In the early 15th century, Portuguese explorers like Henry.