Unfiltered stories of Black resistance, erased heroes, and hidden truths. We connect the past to today’s fights so the next generation never has to ask “why didn’t they teach us this?”
In 1858, the luxury yacht Wanderer smuggled 409 Africans from the Congo region into Georgia despite federal laws that had outlawed the transatlantic slave trade decades earlier. Owned by wealthy Southern elites, the vessel used status, privilege, and deception to avoid scrutiny from anti-slavery patrols.
Federal investigators eventually uncovered evidence and prosecuted those responsible. Despite witnesses, counterfeit documents, and multiple trials, no convictions were secu
Franklin and Armfield became one of the largest slave trading companies in the United States during the 1830s. Operating primarily from Alexandria, Virginia, the company purchased enslaved Black people in the Upper South and transported them to the Deep South, where the cotton economy created enormous demand for labor.
