Antonio Rocha's "The Malaga Ship: A Story of Maine and the Middle Passage" is a haunting and deeply moving performance that takes audiences through a lesser-known aspect of New England's history: its ...

Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Midcentury Moment -- ONE. The Final Triangle Takes Shape -- TWO. Slave Traders at Work -- THREE. Aboard an Illegal American Slaver -- ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

HOUSTON -- While ships like the Mayflower, Titanic, and Santa Maria are commonly remembered, few can name even one of the estimated 12,000 vessels that carried enslaved Africans across the Middle ...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...