All posts tagged "transatlantic trade"

• 

  14.1K

  Crime and Scandal

  The Boon Island Cannibals of Maine

  On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...

• 

  7.6K

  5

  Massachusetts

  The Nightingale of Boston and the Last Gasps of the American Slave Trade

  In early spring of 1861, the Nightingale of Boston set sail for Liverpool. She carried grain, bread and barrels, broken down for...