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Africans in America: Living Africans Thrown Overboard

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by PBS. In order to receive insurance money, a captain ordered 132 slaves thrown overboard alive. The case went to court, and a landmark decision was made that the Africans on the ship were actually people.
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Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829

For Students 9th - 10th
A historically significant account of what Reverend Robert Walsh observed on a slave ship off the African coast in 1829.